The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) plans to review the pricing of mobile phone services, with a view to updating regulations governing the area.
The competition regulator yesterday announced a preliminary decision to exempt Telstra from having to supply rivals with wholesale telephone services in some metropolitan areas.
Arch-rivals Optus and Telstra will face off in court tomorrow as the SingTel subsidiary gets an initial hearing of its claim Telstra unfairly raised wholesale line rental prices in December last year.
The competition regulator will continue to regulate key fixed-line telecommunications services provided by Telstra to rivals, in a move seen as maintaining the status quo.
iiNet is set to be the first of many Internet Service Providers to cut back on the sale of ADSL-based broadband services to the bush unless the competition regulator backs down on its planned wholesale pricing policy, Telstra claims.
Telstra’s broadband retail prices would rise if wholesale costs became more competitive, the telco heavyweight has implied on the back of a 12-week deadline it’s been given to change its conduct.
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.
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Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.
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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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