It has been recommended by the Commerce Commission that Communications Minister, Steven Joyce should deny voluntary price cuts offered, which were offered by Telecom and Vodafone and in its place the Minister has been asked to regulate the mobile termination rates (MTR).

Regulation of MTR was directed by the regulator on February 23, in an unexpected verdict.

MTR regulation included controlling the rates, which the phone Companies charge each other when a call, or text, terminates on an opponent network.

Then on April 26, Communications Minister, Steven Joyce, angry form the new Vodafone $12 Talk offer urged the Commission to revise its decision, as the new scheme transferred its low-priced costing for mobile calls to other Vodafone customers.

On this request, a new re-considered draft poof the same decision was presented on May 12. In this revisited version, the commission agreed with the Minister that Vodafone's $12 offer altered the plans and that there was no need of any regulation, any more.

A few days later, Vodafone attempted to avert the regulation by withdrawing $12 plan from the market. The plan was then substituted by another, which offered the discounts for all the people on every other network.

But as per the recent directions, Mr. Joyce will be now collecting submissions, closing June 29, and following the same, he will hear cross-submissions, closing on July 6.