Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel took Telstra to task this week for not switching on high-speed ADSL2+ broadband nationwide.
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".
Competition in the telecommunications industry has not developed to the full extent that was expected in 1997, said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission yesterday.
The competition regulator yesterday gave its strongest indication yet that Telstra could scrap its proposed $2 billion next generation broadband network by the end of this month.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have responded to Telstra's claims that they have negotiated commercial arrangements with 60 percent of its wholesale customers, saying in real terms "it doesn't account for much".
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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