The Commerce Commission has just released its draft determination on the price Telecom’s competitors will pay to provide voice and broadband services using its copper network.
The monthly rental charge for access to the local loop service, what the Commerce Commission terms UCLL (Unbundled Copper Local Loop) is:
Urban areas: $16.49 per month
Non-urban areas: $32.20 per month
The draft charge for the transfer of a customer to the UCLL service is $83.70.
Co-location – that is the price other operators must pay to install the UCLL equipment in Telecom's exchanges is:
Auckland and Wellington area - $20 per m2 per month
Canterbury, Waikato and Hawkes Bay area - $14 per m2 per monthRemaining areas - $11 per m2 per month.
Submissions to this draft determination close Wednesday 29 August 2007 with a final determination to be made in November 2007.