Members of the telecommunications industry have responded with disappointment to the major political parties' abandonment of debate over the structural separation of Telstra.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commision (ACCC) could miss out on a perfect bargaining opportunity it has over Telstra if a plan to deregulate wholesale local call pricing in Central Business Districts gets the go ahead.
The nation's leading telecoms carriers' fault repair efforts declined nationally in the March quarter, a fact that both Telstra and Optus blame on the NSW bushfire and flooding in the state.
Asia-Pacific telco Pacnet has offered Telecom New Zealand US$420 million for its Australian subsidiary AAPT, according to Reuters.
Asia-pacific telco Pacnet this week declined to confirm or deny its reported US$420 million bid for Telecom New Zealand subsidiary AAPT, saying only that it has been searching for buying opportunities in the region.
What's next for AAPT? Australia's number three telco refused to join Twisted Wire this week, so we decided to cover them anyway, guerrilla-style.
The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.
In times of financial crisis, it's inevitable that companies reassess their financial plans.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
Australians have a right to know exactly what the G9 is planning.
The obvious candidates for consolidation in Australia's telecommunications sector are the 170 internet service providers that are scratching to make a living, but others include Dodo, M8 Telecom, Macquarie Telecom and Eftel.
If Pacnet's offer for AAPT is genuine and on the terms laid out in the Reuters story, then Telecom New Zealand chief executive Paul Reynolds ought to agree to the offer as quickly as he can.
Telstra's Now We Are Talking resident cartoonist Mikko lampoons Terria's rapidly declining list of members.
The implementation of closed loop marketing software at the Australian operations of a telco is being credited with reducing customer churn by 25 percent.
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