The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a notice to Telstra claiming the carrier acted anti-competitively in its implemention of a wholesale line rental price increase.
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.
Australia’s competition watchdog has started investigating Telstra’s new mobile call rates, which ultimately lock customers into 12-month contracts and counteract mobile number portability -- which was supposed to increase competition in the market.
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.
update: The Federal Court has found the national competition regulator did not treat Telstra fairly when slugging the telco with a competition notice 12 months ago. The ACCC has expressed disappointment with the ruling.
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Australia's ongoing PayPal saga has taken another turn today with the news that an anonymous submission sent to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) opposing eBay's exclusive deal with the payment provider was authored by Google.
Government agencies have plans in the pipeline to conduct a sweep of Australian Web sites, checking for compliance with new privacy legislation.
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'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".
Australian customers were today digesting the implications of last night's widely-predicted AU$7.6 billion acquisition of customer relationship management vendor Siebel Systems by Oracle.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel took Telstra to task this week for not switching on high-speed ADSL2+ broadband nationwide.
Vodafone has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to ease several regulations governing the Australian mobile phone industry.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) plans to review the pricing of mobile phone services, with a view to updating regulations governing the area.
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman is investigating SIM-Unlock fees attached to pre-paid mobile accounts to determine whether they are 'penalties', and therefore unrecoverable by common law.
Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.
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