November 2011

Commerce Commission publishes register of Chorus's wholesale customers

30 November 2011

The Commerce Commission today published a register of telecommunications companies who are wholesale customers of Chorus's telecommunications services.

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Commerce Commission authorises a restriction on the sale of refrigerants to safety certified customers only

29 November 2011

The Commerce Commission has authorised a proposal for refrigerant wholesalers to enter into a voluntary agreement which contains an exclusionary provision.

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Commerce Commission publishes three decisions that implement Telco Act amendments

24 November 2011

The Commerce Commission today released three decisions which follow recent amendments to the Telecommunications Act.

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Commerce Commission progresses default price-quality paths for gas pipeline services

21 November 2011

The Commerce Commission today announced it is seeking feedback on its draft decisions on the first default price-quality paths for gas pipeline services regulated under Part 4 of the Commerce Act 1986.

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Vodafone fined almost $82K for misleading mobile phone $1 a day customers

21 November 2011

Vodafone New Zealand Limited was fined $81,900 in the Auckland District Court today after being found guilty of breaching the Fair Trading Act in relation to its $1 a day mobile phone internet data charges.

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Second phone card company fined for misleading marketing

10 November 2011

Misleading consumers about the cost of using their prepaid phone card today earned an Auckland-based company a fine of $140,000 in the Auckland District Court before Judge Cunningham.  

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Commerce Commission settles timber claim against Carter Holt Harvey

9 November 2011

The Commerce Commission has agreed to a settlement with Carter Holt Harvey Limited (CHH) which ends civil proceedings brought by the Commission under the Fair Trading Act.

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Commerce Commission sets revenues for Transpower for the three years from mid-2012

1 November 2011

The Commerce Commission today announced the forecast maximum revenues that Transpower is able to earn for the three year period from April 2012.

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