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  • ACCC issues broadband notice to Telstra

    The Australian consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has issued Telstra with an advisory notice over concerns that the communications giant has breached competition laws by dropping broadband retail prices below their wholesale charges.

  • Decline in broadband growth halted: ACCC

    Growth in the number of Australian broadband users halted its precipitous decline in the first quarter of 2003, according to figures released in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Snapshot of Broadband Deployment.

  • ACCC releases VHA merger justification

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its public competition assessment of the Vodafone/Hutchison merger after approving the deal a month ago.

  • Voda/Hutch merger rattles ACCC

    Australia's competition watchdog tonight issued a strongly worded statement of concern that the proposed merger of mobile carriers Hutchison and Vodafone could lead to increased retail prices on mobile telephony and broadband services.

  • NBN HQ decision will wait for board

    The location of the National Broadband Network headquarters will not be decided until after the NBN company's board and chairman are appointed, Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told his state counterparts this week.

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    Broadband hearing unplugged (day 2)

    The second day of hearings last week (4 March) for the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Broadband hearing unplugged (day 1)

    Earlier this week (Tuesday 3 March) a number of telecommunications industry heavyweights fronted up to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Forget the drought, it's raining broadband

    As Christmas roars in upon us and the Rudds, Trujillos, and Conroys of the world hang their Christmas stockings, everybody is casting an eye to 2008 and the changes it will bring.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    The longest last mile

    How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

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    So how many of you have bought a 3G iPhone? Do you feel like a sucker? If you don't, maybe you will once your first bill arrives.

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Features and Case Studies (29)

  • Conroy charts national broadband agenda

    The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.

  • Australia: broadband backwater or trailblazer?

    Is Australia leading or lagging in the broadband stakes? Well, it depends on who you ask.

  • Unwired wary of big carriers in broadband spectrum sale

    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.

  • Sue Trujillo

    The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this.

  • Telstra between a rock and the ACCC?

    The proposed regulatory reforms ahead of the roll-out of the National Broadband Network rely on a finely balanced carrot and stick approach. But will Telstra cooperate with the government's ultimatum?

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    Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel took Telstra to task this week for not switching on high-speed ADSL2+ broadband nationwide.

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    The ACCC is standing before a chasm, with the lack of certainty around regulation of the national broadband network putting a question mark beside the commissions' future role.

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    Thousands of SMEs are expected to move to DSL broadband by the end of the year. ZDNet Australia examines the industry and shows how to navigate this competitive and confusing market.

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    For all its publicised benefits, why is iTV still having such a hard time making it in Australia?

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