A group of nine ISPs sent a letter to the ACCC accusing the telco of stifling competition and urging the regulator to throw its full force behind an investigation.
Telstra today advised the market of a preliminary ruling by the competition watchdog that a single third party broadband provider can pay less for access to its equipment than the industrywide price listed by the telco in its earnings forecasts.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is planning to stop regulating the wholesale mobile originating access service after 30 June.
Australia's competition regulator late yesterday denied an application by Telstra to stop supplying Optus fixed line services within the SingTel subsidiary's cable network footprint.
The competition regulator yesterday announced a preliminary decision to exempt Telstra from having to supply rivals with wholesale telephone services in some metropolitan areas.
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.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
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Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
Unwired CEO, David Spence, has urged Australia's communications regulators to protect a tranche of prime wireless broadband spectrum due to be auctioned September from anti-competitive behaviour by existing carriers.
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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".
Australia's peak Internet industry body has upped the ante against unsolicited bulk e-mail senders, a move sparked by lawsuits against spammers in the United States.
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.
In addition to which handset and which service provider to opt for, Australian consumers now have to chose which network to sign up to - GSM or CDMA. So, what are the differences between the two networks?
Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.
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