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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology may be viewed as a potential redeemer for telecommunications competition by various industry bodies, but veteran analyst Paul Budde said yesterday VoIP may not present as much of a threat to Telstra's dominance as others may think.
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The Australian competition regulator today challenged Telstra to switch on ADSL2+ broadband services nation-wide, saying the telco could easily gain regulatory certainty on rival access.
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".
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