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The Commission commenced its investigations on 10 April 2003 with the publication of an issues paper. On 4 September 2003, the Commission commenced an additional investigation under Schedule 3 of the Act into certain aspects of unbundling. The Commission published its draft report on both investigations on 18 September 2003. On 14 October 2003, the Commission released an amended draft report to include amendments to certain input figures in the cost-benefit analysis.

The Commission held a conference on the draft report on 10-14 November 2003, transcripts and papers from this conference are available in this section.

On 22 December 2003, the Commission submitted its final report to the Minister of Communications.

On 19 May 2004, the Minister announced his decision to accept the recommendations contained in the Commission's final report.

On 4 August 2004, the Commission released a draft price benchmarking report prepared by Covec Limited on Telecom's Unbundled Partial Circuit (UPC) Service. This report relates to Telecom's commitment provided to the Commission on 25 June 2004 that Telecom would provide cost-based pricing for the UPC service by 30 September 2004. The Commission released its final UPC benchmarking report on 3 September 2004.