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.
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.
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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.
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.
Australia’s competition watchdog has started investigating Telstra’s new mobile call rates, which ultimately lock customers into 12-month contracts and counteract mobile number portability -- which was supposed to increase competition in the market.
Key decisions about competition in Australia's telecommunications industry are expected this week.
The national competition regulator today released a position paper detailing what it described as a "robust framework" for reviewing existing and guiding future telecommunications regulation of fixed network services.
The telecommunications industry is this week examining proposals to boost the transparency of costs associated with Telstra's provision of services to itself and other providers.
Australians have a right to know exactly what the G9 is planning.
Some suggestions of New Year's Resolutions for the Australian telecommunications industry.
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".
Australian customers were today digesting the implications of last night's widely-predicted AU$7.6 billion acquisition of customer relationship management vendor Siebel Systems by Oracle.
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.
For all its publicised benefits, why is iTV still having such a hard time making it in Australia?
Customers and government bodies should focus on products with open standards and realise the pitfalls of open source, argues Scott Petty, Dimension Data Australia COO.
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