Chorus warns of more earnings pain from latest review on copper lines

Tue, 10 Dec 2013

By Paul McBeth Dec. 11 (BusinessDesk) - Chorus faces another hit to its earnings as the regulator looks into the price of another component in the embattled telecommunications network operator’s copper lines. The Commerce Commission has started a review for the price list for Chorus’s unbundled copper low frequency service (UCLFS), which lets telecommunications companies provide voice services using the low frequency band on the copper local loop network. The Telecommunications Act requires the UCLFS price to be the same as the unbundled c...

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