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Mobile monitoring report shows continuation of early trends
Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 10:08 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission’s second mobile monitoring report released today shows a continued narrowing of the difference between the costs of on-net and off-net calls and text messages. This has resulted in an increase in calling and text messaging ... More >>
Second electricity company to refund customers
Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 9:32 am | Commerce Commission
A second electricity company this year has admitted breaching the Fair Trading Act and will refund customers who weren’t given a prompt payment discount with their final bills. More >>
GE Money settles with Commerce Commission
Monday, 19 December 2011, 12:27 pm | Commerce Commission
A settlement between the Commerce Commission and GE Money today will result in GE Money paying a $60,000 donation to the New Zealand Federation of Family Budgeting Services after admitting it breached the Fair Trading Act. More >>
Commerce Commission Paper On High Speed Broadband Demand
Monday, 19 December 2011, 9:39 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released the first of three issues papers relating to the uptake of high speed broadband ahead of a public conference in February 2012. The paper examines the technical issues that the Commission has identified as being ... More >>
Fonterra-Kotahi joint venture unlikely to lessen competition
Friday, 16 December 2011, 3:01 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has reached a preliminary view that a proposed joint venture between Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and Silver Fern Farms Limited would be unlikely to harm competition, and therefore does not need an authorisation under ... More >>
Broadband pricing improving - unlike fixed line calling
Friday, 16 December 2011, 9:22 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has released its second report that benchmarks New Zealand prices for fixed line and mobile telecommunications services against international prices. More >>
Seagate Technology granted clearance
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 4:48 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has granted clearance for Seagate Technology Plc to acquire certain assets of the hard disk drive business of Samsung Electronics Co. Limited. More >>
“Outrageous” conduct leads to indefinite banning order
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 11:12 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has welcomed a banning order, the first of its kind issued under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act, which indefinitely prevents bankrupt and convicted fraudster Trevor Allan Ludlow from setting up, operating or ... More >>
Commission publishes register of Chorus wholesale customers
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 11:40 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today published a register of telecommunications companies who are wholesale customers of Chorus’s telecommunications services. More >>
Restrictions on the sale of refrigerants: Com Com
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 10:18 am | Commerce Commission
Commerce Commission authorises a restriction on the sale of refrigerants to safety certified customers only More >>
Commerce Commission publishes decisions Telco Act amendments
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 9:48 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today released three decisions which follow recent amendments to the Telecommunications Act. The amendments require the Commission to review some of the current standard terms determinations (STDs) ahead of the structural separation ... More >>
Vodafone fined almost $82K for misleading
Monday, 21 November 2011, 3:35 pm | Commerce Commission
Vodafone New Zealand Limited was fined $81,900 in the Auckland District Court today after being found guilty of breaching the Fair Trading Act in relation to its $1 a day mobile phone internet data charges. More >>
Commerce Commission progresses default price-quality paths
Monday, 21 November 2011, 9:45 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today announced it is seeking feedback on its draft decisions on the first default price-quality paths for gas pipeline services regulated under Part 4 of the Commerce Act 1986. More >>
Second phone card company fined for misleading marketing
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 5:02 pm | Commerce Commission
Misleading consumers about the cost of using their prepaid phone card today earned an Auckland-based company a fine of $140,000 in the Auckland District Court before Judge Cunningham. More >>
Commerce Commission settles timber claim against Carter Holt
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 11:09 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has agreed to a settlement with Carter Holt Harvey Limited (CHH) which ends civil proceedings brought by the Commission under the Fair Trading Act. More >>
Commerce Commission sets revenues for Transpower
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 10:47 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today announced the forecast maximum revenues that Transpower is able to earn for the three year period from April 2012. More >>
Commerce Commission to appeal input methodology decision
Friday, 21 October 2011, 4:54 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today announced that it will appeal against the recent High Court decision that it should have determined further input methodologies before seeking to reset starting prices for certain electricity distribution businesses ... More >>
Improvement in electricity asset management planning
Friday, 21 October 2011, 10:36 am | Commerce Commission
Electricity distribution businesses (EDBs) have made real progress towards best practice in asset management planning, Commerce Commission Deputy Chair, Sue Begg said today. The Commission released a review of asset management plans disclosed ... More >>
Telecom refunds customers after inaccurate meter readings
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 9:14 am | Commerce Commission
Telecom has admitted breaching the Fair Trading Act after misleading some customers about the amount of broadband data they used. More >>
Commerce Com Go Ahead For Freight Forwarding Cartel Case
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 10:05 am | Commerce Commission
The High Court has given the Commerce Commission the go ahead to proceed to trial against Kuehne+Nagel International AG (Kuehne+Nagel) in relation to the Commission’s ongoing freight forwarding cartel case. More >>
