Telstra today rejected calls by the OECD for it to sell its shareholding in pay TV group Foxtel because it was hindering competition. A major report by the OECD released today criticised Telstra for owning a 50 per cent stake in Foxtel as well as its cable TV distribution network, saying it had virtually put the lid on competition in the sector.
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Australian information technology (IT) managers will struggle to become good chief information officers (CIO) unless they learn the skills to manage the role's increasingly strategic influence on business, according to former Telstra manager-turned-academic, Professor Steve Burdon.
Cable & Wireless Optus has announced today it would write off almost AU$70 million owed by failed junior carrier One.Tel.
Packer-Murdoch venture One.Tel could become one of Australia’s least scrutinused telcos by the end of the year, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
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