Voice services deregulation review
In late 2024, the Commission found there were reasonable grounds to start a fibre fixed access services (FFLAS) deregulation review under s 210(3) of the Telecommunications Act.
In this review we set out our recommendation to the Minister on whether Voice services should no longer be regulated under Part 6 of the Act, or subjected to Price quality regulation under Part 6 of the Act.
We have published submissions and cross-submissions received on our Voice draft recommendations paper and legal and economic framework.
We have published our final legal and economic framework for carrying out fibre deregulation reviews under section 210 of the Telecommunications Act 2001.
Our view is that Voice FFLAS should no longer be regulated under Part 6 of the Act in order to best give effect to section 162 and 166(2)(b). Accordingly, our recommendation to the Minister is to deregulate Voice FFLAS at this time.