Next generation networks - TUANZ responds to ComCom
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Posted Mon 29 September 2008 @ 4:24 p.m. by Ernie Newman
Submissions on the Commerce Commission questionnaire on next generation networks have now closed. TUANZ has put our response forward, compiled under the guidance of our Policy Committee.
The questionnaire is but one step in a comprehensive study of NGN issues initiated by the Commission last March.
Some of the key points TUANZ made are:
- There is a need for certainty over the scope and depth of access and interconnection rights between competing networks - uncertainty can be a barrier to attracting capital and custom.
- There is a need for a common understanding of what constitutes "open access."
- Continuing interoperability of customer premise equipment has proved an issue with NGNs elsewhere and needs to be kept in view during a transition.
- Users, especially residential users, would benefit from a common terminology describing different service levels in standard, understandable language, without having to interpret complex industry jargon.
- It's inevitable that the role of numbering will become increasingly divorced from geography. End users will require some other means to ascertain in advance the cost, in general terms, of a call they are about to initiate.
- TUANZ repeats our call for a National Digital Architecture - a high level plan that outlines the technologies, ownership structures, and interfaces between community-owned open access networks and facilities-based competition.
- The right of infrastructure owners to replace copper with fibre over existing poles or ducts should be automatic, not subject to RMA processes.
The full TUANZ Submission is here.
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