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• ATUG concerned about Voda/Hutch merger

  The Australian Telecommunications User Group has voiced concerns to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that the proposed Vodafone-Hutchison merger would reduce competitive pressure.

• Havyatt demands more NBN discussion

  Outspoken telecommunications stalwart David Havyatt has called for the industry to shower the federal broadband department with unsolicited submissions on the National Broadband Network.

• ACCC threatens dodgy telcos

  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Graeme Samuel today warned the telecommunications industry that it would face additional regulation and court action unless it stopped misleading and cheating consumers.

• Telco industry calls on Conroy to cut regulation rope

  Telecoms industry body the Communications Alliance has called on the government to support a lighter regulatory touch for broadband.

• ATUG concerned about Telstra network upgrade

  Telstra's decision to invest in a next generation IP MPLS network has attracted the attention of the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG), which this morning announced it would meet regularly with the telco to discuss concerns about the project.

Blogs (5)

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  Do we need the legislative blackmail?

  Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.

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  NBN for just $2047.62 per vote

  The government dumped its well-intentioned bidders and spent the day awash in adulation from an industry that suddenly felt all its Christmases had come at once. But isn't this the same government that, two weeks ago, was warning it had to ditch key election promises for lack of funding?

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  The Swedes are doing it, so why can't we?

  I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.

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  The more things change...

  With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.

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  Telstra vans get a makeover

  BigPond has apparently given Telstra's ubiquitous services vans a slap-up paint job ... but will Optus follow suit?

Features and Case Studies (5)

• ATUG awards night: Party photos

  ACCC officials with glasses of wine, a golden medal for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and a few faux pas: the annual awards night of the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG) had it all.

• Where else but Queensland?

  Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.

• Qld Govt: The usual ICT suspects

  Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.

• When a vacuum becomes vacuous

  The silence clinging to Stephen Conroy's National Broadband Network deliberations may have fried some brains in Australia's telecommunications industry.

• Trade shows: where are they headed?

  Where is the IT industry spending its marketing dollars to grab your attention? In this CeBIT preview, ZDNet Australia asks if trade shows are really worth it.

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