Australia's top two telecommunications players have loudly touted broadband milestones this week -- but a telecommunications analyst has warned growth in the sector may be curtailed unless an appropriate competition regime is maintained.
Telstra has accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of not giving it "sufficient guidance" in resolving a furore over broadband pricing that could see the carrier fined millions of dollars.
The Australian consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has issued Telstra with an advisory notice over concerns that the communications giant has breached competition laws by dropping broadband retail prices below their wholesale charges.
Telstra has refuted claims that its new budget price broadband offers are unfair to competing wholesale buyers, saying they are confident their wholesale prices do allow market competition.
Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
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