Chorus wins in push-back against proposed copper pricing, faces smaller reductions

Chorus wins in push-back against proposed copper pricing, faces smaller reductions
By Paul McBeth Dec. 3 (BusinessDesk) - Chorus, the telecommunications network operator, won't have to cut its prices for copper-line services as deeply as initially feared after the antitrust regulator set pricing over the unbundled copper local loop. The Commerce Commission has set the new geographically averaged price at $23.52 per month per line from Dec. 1, 2014, a 3.9 percent reduction to the prices set in 2007, it said in a statement. That's a smaller cut than the $19.75/month price flag in its draft determination. Urban UCLL prices ha...