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New Zealand: Telecom spin-off goes to court over copper wire pricing

By  |  December 2, 2013

Telecommunications firm Chorus, which was spun out of Telecom Corp in 2011, is reportedly going to court challenging New Zealand’s Commerce Commission’s copper wire pricing regulations.

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    Chorus filed a complaint in the High Court seeking a judicial ruling on whether the competition regulator properly interpreted the law when it based copper wire prices based on only two nations; the Commission’s regulation lead to a 23 percent price cut for Chorus.

    In addition to the court filing, reports say the company has also applied to the regulator for a final review of its pricing decision for the company’s unbundled bitstream access.

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