Co-Location, hayrides and extinct birds
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Posted Thu 29 May 2008 @ 8:49 a.m. by Sarah Putt
Co Location has become one the last - and possibly the most difficult - issues to solve in the ongoing development of a more competitive New Zealand mobile market. The TCF and the Commerce Commission continue to plough on through a field thick with submissions, counter-submissions, arguments and counter-arguments.
TUANZ is of course right there along for the hay ride - but enough of these tortured metaphors, this blog post is to alert all those who are interested to the TUANZ submission to the Commerce Commission regarding the Consultation on Vodafone’s Standard Terms Proposal for Mobile Co-Location.
In the submission TUANZ restates its concerns around monopoly pricing and the greenfield moratorium ‘loophole’ and discusses the impact of shared sites on performance degradation and capacity forecasting.
Meanwhile, on a related topic, what’s happening with those Mobile Virtual Network Operator deals between Vodafone and providers such as Orcon? I can't help being reminded of that line in the February/March 2006 edition of TUANZ Topics by former editor Greg Adams: “Needless to say, for the time being at least, you’re more likely to see a moa than an MVNO in New Zealand”. And that was over two years ago!
Categories: Regulatory | TUANZ policy | Wireless carriers