www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Investigation of the structural separation in order to participate in the government’s Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative has been completed by Telecom New Zealand. The telco has requested telecommunications minister to consider a variation on three components of Telecom’s undertakings that will no longer be relevant in a fibre future. According to CEO Paul Reynolds, in making a thorough assessment of structural separation the company needs to have a detailed understanding of the regulatory environment, and this warrants detailed discussion and analysis with Government before any decisions regarding its viability can be made. Suspension of the forced bulk migration of existing broadband customers onto a new copper-based broadband service, removal of the requirement for Telecom to migrate 17,000 customers onto a new VoIP over copper service by the end of this year; and removal of the requirement for Telecom to build a new set of wholesale systems that are not consistent with the industry structure implied by UFB are three of the proposed changes.