Telstra has stepped up its campaign against the consumer watchdog, taking out full-page advertisements in major daily newspapers in every capital city.
Telstra has accused the competition regulator of "throwing a hand grenade" into the fibre-to-the-node debate after reports surfaced that the Commission had cut the prices the telco can charge rival providers to use its copper network.
Last week a rebel alliance arose to challenge the heavyweight many see as the Australian telecommunications industry's equivalent of Star Wars' evil empire.
Australian small businesses are the big winners from the recent broadband price war, with the median price of a small-to-medium business ADSL plan falling by more than 17 percent from February to April, a new report claims.
Facts are facts, right? Not when Telstra, Optus and the communications regulator are involved. With temperatures rising across the board over the contentious issue of broadband, mud-slinging and half-truths have become the order of the day.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
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.
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