Regulator seeks industry views on Chorus line price, suggests speedier process, backdating final price

Regulator seeks industry views on Chorus line price, suggests speedier process, backdating final price
Dec. 6 (BusinessDesk) – The Commerce Commission is consulting with the telecommunications industry over what price Chorus can charge rivals to access its copper telephone lines, suggesting a review process could be accelerated and the final price backdated. The Commerce Commission is reviewing the price by building a full cost model on Chorus’s unbundled local loop, which lets retailers rent the lines for voice and broadband services. That differs from the unbundled bitstream access services, currently in dispute, which lets retailers use Cho...