The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman is investigating SIM-Unlock fees attached to pre-paid mobile accounts to determine whether they are 'penalties', and therefore unrecoverable by common law.
Vodafone has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to ease several regulations governing the Australian mobile phone industry.
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The nation's competition regulator has given Telstra until 27 January next year to justify a recent rise in the line rental prices it charges its wholesale customers.
Key decisions about competition in Australia's telecommunications industry are expected this week.
Telstra's competitors have welcomed a move by the nation's competition regulator to restrain what it sees as anti-competitive pricing behaviour, but the heavyweight claims its prices are "fair and justified".
Competition in the telecommunications industry has not developed to the full extent that was expected in 1997, said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission yesterday.
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