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  • ASG gunning for ACCC services contract

    ASG intends to submit a bid in response to the ACCC's request for tender of IT services, hoping to replace the contract it currently holds with the Commission ending June 2008.

  • ACCC plays hard to get with ASG on IT revamp

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be seeking a new vendor for the provision of all of its ICT services at the end of June, but the organisation has remained tight lipped about its current arrangements.

  • AU$75 million contract bundle one short for ASG

    Systems integrator ASG Group has announced that it has won AU$75 million in new services contracts over recent months, but its longstanding arrangement with the ACCC remains unresolved.

  • Allphones faces ACCC-led class action

    Mobile retailer Allphones faces a class action lawsuit from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission which will argue on behalf of 74 franchisees that the retailer engaged in unconscionable conduct.

  • Telcos call for NBN Co to price discriminate

    Telstra, Optus and other stakeholders agree that the Federal Government should allow the NBN Company to differentiate between its customers on price.

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could they all just kiss and make up already?

    Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN: Now we are Tolkien

    Like the one ring of Sauron, the power of Telstra's copper loop twists the minds of its ever-scheming board, which hid in its Collins Street boardroom until it was wrenched from its grasp by the forces of deregulation and the undead armies of ACCC head Graeme Samuel.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    ADSL2+ at last but at what cost?

    Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Apple iPhone: Your Australian operator is ...

    Good news, everyone -- after all these months of waiting, I can finally reveal which operator will be bringing the iPhone to Australia. And the winner is ...

Features and Case Studies (4)

  • 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.

  • Broadband: Crisis in the bush

    iiNet and Telstra seem to be at loggerheads but the real culprit, according to the telco giant, is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

  • Australia sources for open strategy

    Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?

  • Face off: Lundy vs. Williams

    Communications minister Daryl Williams and his political foe Kate Lundy debate on a wide range of issues, including three most pressing problems facing Australia's ICT industry.

Reviews (1)

  • Banking on broadband

    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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