Commerce Commission wants to retain power to regulate mobile roaming

Commerce Commission wants to retain power to regulate mobile roaming
Tina Morrison
By Tina Morrison July 9 (BusinessDesk) - The Commerce Commission intends to retain the power to regulate national mobile roaming, which helps operators expand coverage beyond their own physical networks. The regulator has the power to require the country’s mobile network operators, Spark New Zealand, Vodafone New Zealand, and Two Degrees Mobile, to provide wholesale access to their networks for a period of time to any new network operator. It is required to consider deregulation of services such as national mobile roaming every five years...