Telecommunications

Bell Gully is one of the leading telecommunications law firms in New Zealand. We have forged a strong reputation across the full range of telco work including commercial, competition, litigation, policy and regulatory advice.

As well as our New Zealand-based work, we act for clients on telecommunications commercial and regulatory matters throughout the Asia Pacific region.

The majority of our commercial work is at the inter-carrier and carrier-to-service provider level. This work encompasses interconnection and peering, wholesaling, capacity supply, roaming, co-location and network and infrastructure sharing. Our clients operate fixed (wireline and wireless), mobile and satellite networks. They include major regional and domestic carriers and network operators, as well as major service providers.

We advise on strategic alliances and joint ventures within the sector and related industries and also assist telecommunications clients and equipment suppliers on network infrastructure construction and procurement arrangements.

On the regulatory front, we advise our telecommunications clients on the most important regulatory issues that affect their business. Principally this involves advising clients in relation to sources of market power in telecommunications and the regulatory measures used to control that market power. Our clients include regulatory authorities, incumbents dealing with the impact of regulation on their business and new entrants who rely on regulatory controls to enable them to grow and develop.

This has involved providing extensive advice to our clients on regulatory issues surrounding interconnection and access in particular, but also issues such as universal service obligations, numbering and electronic addressing, network sharing, MVNOs, domestic roaming, telecommunications standards, spectrum management and information disclosure.

We regularly appear before, and make submissions to, parliamentary select committees, competition and territorial regulatory authorities, government officials and superior courts on telecommunications regulatory matters for our clients.