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Information Reporting

About Information Reporting

Various national and international organisations routinely prepare telecommunications market or economy summaries and or benchmarking reports which require detailed information from carriers and service providers within New Zealand. Examples are the OECD and Statistics New Zealand. These bodies typically prepare a list of information requirements, and forward these either to the carriers directly, or to the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) who then pass them on to the carriers. There is however no mechanism in place for managing or co-ordinating this provision of information across the industry – ensuring firstly that these information requests get answered by all relevant parties, and secondly that they are answered in a consistent manner across all carriers.

The Information Reporting Working Party was established in July 2006 to investigate coordinating responses to multi-carrier information requests from organisations such as OECD and Statistics New Zealand.

This working party has developed a set of industry statistics in a consolidated questionnaire which has been published, without compromising the commercial confidentiality of carriers, for organisations like the ITU and the OECD so they may access these statistics for their own international comparisons. Establishing processes for collating such information will also improve consistency of information and lower compliance costs across the industry.

The Commerce Commission has distributed the survey questionnaire prepared by the TCF Information Reporting Working Party and has received back all required responses from TCF members and other industry participants. The data is now available in an aggregated form on the Commerce Commissions website and can be accessed through the following link:

http://www.comcom.govt.nz/IndustryRegulation/Telecommunications/MonitoringandReporting/DecisionsList.aspx.

The Information Reporting Working Party continues to work with Statistics New Zealand to enable them to take over the data collection task for next year and the future.

Project Scope

The role of the working party is set out in the Information Reporting project scope.

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