Telstra today launched a Federal Court legal challenge to a recent notice issued by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) which accused the telco of anti-competitive actions.
The nation's competition regulator has given Telstra until 27 January next year to justify a recent rise in the line rental prices it charges its wholesale customers.
Arch-rivals Optus and Telstra will face off in court tomorrow as the SingTel subsidiary gets an initial hearing of its claim Telstra unfairly raised wholesale line rental prices in December last year.
Telstra's competitors have welcomed a move by the nation's competition regulator to restrain what it sees as anti-competitive pricing behaviour, but the heavyweight claims its prices are "fair and justified".
Telstra has moved to cast itself as the champion of rural and regional Australia's telecommunications interests as debate over regulation of the sector grows ever-more heated.
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