Telecom's plans for LLU
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Posted Thu 14 June 2007 @ 3:15 p.m. by Sarah Putt
Telecom Wholesale’s set of Standard Termination Determination (STD)documents - effectively its proposal for opening its exchanges to competitors - is now online at Telecom’s website. This submission was filed with the Commerce Commission on Tuesday, however Telecom have indicated that further information will be available to the Commission at the end of the month.
According to the documents, of Telecom’s 650 exchanges 40 will be initially opened to competitors. The list of the first exchanges to be unbundled has not been made public in the documents.
Telecom's timetable shows it will be 65 days from when the Commerce Commission sets the final STD (including the price for access to the copper) before its competitors can put equipment into the first five exchanges. And 14 months after the determination before all 40 exchanges are unbundled.
The Commerce Commission's timetable for determining the STD is also online.
Also available on the Telecom website is a recent presentation by Telecom Wholesale GM Matt Crockett about the NGN rollout. A slide depicting the Remuera exchange shows that 40 per cent of lines will have to move from the exchange to the cabinets in order for users to get the 10Mbps speeds ADSL+2 equipment is capable of delivering. What effect cabinetisation will have on their plans to install equipment into exchanges is no doubt a key consideration for Telecom's competitors.
Note: Telecom had sought to delay the delivery of these documents, however the Commerce Commission was determined that the company meet the deadline
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