A group of nine ISPs sent a letter to the ACCC accusing the telco of stifling competition and urging the regulator to throw its full force behind an investigation.
The Western Australian Internet Association and South Australian Internet Association lauded the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) recommendation on Telstra's Line Sharing Service (LSS) monthly access charge.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking comment on whether it should regulate Internet interconnection arrangements.
Competition regulator the ACCC is set to probe what's stopping Telstra's rivals rolling out broadband services -- and whether there are 'real' blocks, like space constraints, that are preventing them or whether there are 'artificial' restraints on accessing the unbundled local loop.
Telecoms industry body the Communications Alliance has called on the government to support a lighter regulatory touch for broadband.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
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".
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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