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#34573 26-May-2009 12:05

According to IT Brief:

2degrees began legal action against Telecom yesterday, after it accused the telecommunications giant of anti-competitive practises.

In 2006, The Commerce Commission said Telecom had to provide interconnection to Vodafone on the same terms that 2degrees was requesting, that is, pure “bill and keep” wholesale pricing with a requirement for non-discrimination of retail prices.

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#217974 26-May-2009 12:36

Here we go again. They've not even launched and now the start legal action. Guess they want to be bankrupt sooner than later..

Yesterday they were praising Telecom for getting the filter installation program completed ahead of schedule..

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#217976 26-May-2009 12:41

old3eyes:

Yesterday they were praising Telecom for getting the filter installation program completed ahead of schedule..

I was thinking the same thing old3eyes! Great start for 2degrees

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#218000 26-May-2009 13:45

Hi Geekzoners - our application at the CommComm is around future business plans to offer our mobile customers the ability make calls using their mobile at PSTN rates when they are in or around their home - essentially what you call homezone services.
Back in 2006, the CommComm determined that Telecom had to come to an agreement with Vodafone over homezone services and we have been trying for the past 2 years to get a similar agreement.
This doesn't affect the launch of our new mobile network in August and we look forward to sharing more elements of our launch with you over the coming months.
If you want to keep up to date with what we are up to, feel free to check out the news section of our website or follow us on Twitter.
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#218001 26-May-2009 13:45

Well with the amount 2degrees has behind them, I think this was expected as part of their plan. A court case like this is worth what 1-2 Mill? Wouldn't it be worth it to make over 100+ Mil?

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#218009 26-May-2009 14:14

Home zone plan would be very cool.

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#218015 26-May-2009 14:24

from "stuff.co.nz"

"2degrees said it would like to offer local home zone calling services over its new mobile network, but Telecom's refusal to interconnect effectively shut it out of the market.

Under home zone plans customers can drop their landline and have a mobile-only service, paying residential landline rates for calls made on their mobile when at home."

Dont Vodafone offer that solely throught their cellular network and own exchange equipment therefore not requiring telecom infrastructure, if so and they are using Vodafones cell network how can Telecom be to blame or they they refering to call termination.

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#218019 26-May-2009 14:32

n00dy: from "stuff.co.nz"

"2degrees said it would like to offer local home zone calling services over its new mobile network, but Telecom's refusal to interconnect effectively shut it out of the market.

Under home zone plans customers can drop their landline and have a mobile-only service, paying residential landline rates for calls made on their mobile when at home."

Dont Vodafone offer that solely throught their cellular network and own exchange equipment therefore not requiring telecom infrastructure, if so and they are using Vodafones cell network how can Telecom be to blame or they they refering to call termination.

I think it is for the return termination, when someone calls their 022 number it should be classed as local.

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#218213 27-May-2009 08:11

Dom Post says that 2Degress is looking for a pure "bill and keep" model, and that TNZ has offered 2Degress the same agreement it has with Vodafone.

The stuff article says the same:

But Telecom today said it had offered a commercial deal to 2degrees on the same terms as the agreement with
Vodafone, and remained willing to negotiate such an arrangement.

I think that, like the interference case, we don't have enough information to make any sort of judgement.

Don't carriers that want to offer local phone service have to have local interconnects to all of TNZ's CO's before they can accept/receive calls? That might be what this is really about - 2Degrees not wanting to build out that much of a network just to offer local phone numbers.

Also, I didn't think that NZ worked in a Bill and Keep model for anything, even local->local, which is why those free ISPs popped up back at the end of the dial-up era (and were quickly whacked on the head).

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#218216 27-May-2009 08:20

Hrm, the Dom Post article isn't online. It even has a quote from Vodafone:

"Vodafone regulatory affairs manager Tom Chignell expressed some sympathy for Telecom's stance, arguing that
allowing local numbers to be assigned to mobiles regardless of their actual location risked undermining the numbering
system."

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#218244 27-May-2009 10:11

There will be a new (uncut) version of the DomPost story going online shortly which I hope will explain things better than the shorten version that ran in the paper.

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#218267 27-May-2009 11:08

The Dom Post story by Tom Pullar-Strecker (tomps) is up:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2447724/Home-is-where-the-mobile-is-2degrees

It looks like 2 Degrees is asking to be able to give mobile phones local phone numbers, regardless of their
location in the country.

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#218271 27-May-2009 11:22

Seems my data is old:

http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage____4851.aspx

There's some Bill and Keep between the fixed line carriers.

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#218275 27-May-2009 11:47

When Vodafone expresses sympathy for Telecom, you know it's something good for the consumer. Go 2degrees.

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#218279 27-May-2009 11:57

Sounds very similar to the TelstraClear Tauranga unplugged. I believe they were trying to do a similar thing; i.e. local calling numbers that could move.

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#218280 27-May-2009 11:57

Springtv: When Vodafone expresses sympathy for Telecom, you know it's something good for the consumer. Go 2degrees.

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