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News (83)

• ACCC rejects software buy

  Thomson Reuters Australia's purchase of Ernst & Young's tax compliance software business, Ernst & Young Information Systems, has been opposed by the competition regulator.

• ACCC dodges NBN monopoly question

  The chief of Australia's competition regulator last night said it was too soon to know what sort of issues would arise if the National Broadband Network Company became another government-owned monopoly telco player in the style of Telstra.

• Telstra appeals ACCC's $30 ULLS rejection

  Telstra today launched an appeal in Federal Court to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's April rejection of its $30 per month wholesale undertaking for Unconditional Local Loop Services over the telco's copper network.

• ACCC whips HP cashback into shape

  HP Australia has changed its claims processing and complaints handling procedures, following numerous complaints received by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission about the manufacturer's cashback and gift promotions.

• Libs won't push for Telstra break-up

  Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin this week said the opposition would not support calls from Telstra's rivals for the telco to be broken up into chunks.

Blogs (6)

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  Samuel's battle with the phone cards

  Telephone call cards how dodgy are they, despite recent court actions by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission?

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  NBN: Now we are Tolkien

  Like the one ring of Sauron, the power of Telstra's copper loop twists the minds of its ever-scheming board, which hid in its Collins Street boardroom until it was wrenched from its grasp by the forces of deregulation and the undead armies of ACCC head Graeme Samuel.

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  ADSL2+ at last but at what cost?

  Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.

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  Could they all just kiss and make up already?

  Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.

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  Telstra still only cheers for Telstra

  The men running Telstra have been accused of a lot of things, but lack of conviction is definitely not one of them. I found this out recently after having the chance to hear Phil Burgess, the company's most senior regular spokesperson and an outspoken critic of the government's telecommunications policy, address an AIIA-sponsored business lunch in Melbourne.

Features and Case Studies (10)

• Sue Trujillo

  The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this.

• Telstra's artful fawning

  Reading Telstra's submission to the government on NBN regulation is a bit like reading a combination of Dicken's David Copperfield, specifically the simpering character known as Uriah Heep, and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

• Competition reality a sly fiction

  Like Rudd, the ingrained cynicism and frustration at things not going to plan in Australia's telecommunications industry blinds ACCC chair Graeme Samuel to the possibility that he is part of the problem.

• Trujillo was a costly mistake for Telstra

  We can now conclude that Telstra went backwards during the Trujillo era, and that the board's decision in June 2005 to sack Ziggy Switkowski and install a team of expensive Americans to run the company was a mistake.

• Minchin is gaining on Conroy

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy needs to stop handing his opposite Nick Minchin free kicks and put some transparency back into the National Broadband Network process before he finds himself losing favour with Chairman Rudd.

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  Video: ACCC boss shows Telstra the way

  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel took Telstra to task this week for not switching on high-speed ADSL2+ broadband nationwide.

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