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  • Telstra and G9 square up for real fibre fight

    The phony war is over, the real battle is now on -- the government's expert taskforce has published its full list of guidelines that would-be bidders for Australia's urban high speed broadband network will need to abide by.

  • Westnet unfazed by Telstra's Broadband Connect withdrawal

    Internet service provider Westnet plans to continue selling subsidised broadband services to rural areas under the federal government's Broadband Connect (BC) program, despite the decision of its wholesale provider, Telstra, not to participate in the scheme.

  • Telstra to come under greater ACCC scrutiny

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will soon have greater powers to detect anti-competitive behaviour from Telstra under a draft direction issued by the Minister for Communications.

  • Coonan tells Telstra to resolve ACCC talks

    Communications Minister Helen Coonan has told Telstra to speed up its talks with the competition watchdog on regulations to clear the way for consideration of its sale.

  • Telstra delays rural ADSL upgrades as funding cuts out

    Telstra has temporarily ceased enabling some rural telephone exchanges for ADSL services after late last year it reached the limit of funds it could receive from the federal government's subsidised bush broadband scheme.

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  • VoIP no big deal on policy front

    The federal government today confirmed plans to make only minor tweaks to telecomms regulations to accommodate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and forecast only low mass-market takeup of the next-generation telephony technology for the next two-three years.

  • Unwired wary of big carriers in broadband spectrum sale

    Unwired CEO, David Spence, has urged Australia's communications regulators to protect a tranche of prime wireless broadband spectrum due to be auctioned September from anti-competitive behaviour by existing carriers.

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