Telstra is still bestriding Aussie telecoms like a colossus, according to the latest report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) into how the country's telcos are faring.
Optus today said that the terms of Telstra's AU$6.5 million deal with the competition watchdog over broadband pricing were "disappointing", given the telecommunications heavyweight had accrued a potential cumulative liability of AU$300 million.
Arch-rivals Optus and Telstra will face off in court tomorrow as the SingTel subsidiary gets an initial hearing of its claim Telstra unfairly raised wholesale line rental prices in December last year.
Optus is positioning itself to welcome with open arms broadband resellers tired of dealing with Telstra's increasingly hostile wholesale division.
Optus and Telstra have worked out issues around sending multi-media messages between the two networks.
Comedian and occasional Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan took up the microphone again last week as he continued his campaign of targeting Telstra with bad jokes.
Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.
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Hillary Clinton's nine lives are not yet depleted and, despite allegations that her stubborn refusal to concede defeat earlier has fragmented her party, she fought her battle to the very end. By placing bets several ways, that battle may just turn into gold for her down the track. Has Optus taken a leaf out of Hillary's book?
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Mobile broadband is taking a price dive this Christmas, with Vodafone and Optus trotting out low priced plans with high download quotas. But Telstra says its competitors' networks are too slow and offer limited coverage.
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Telstra's negotiation with Optus for cheaper wholesale copper network access was an exercise in protecting its assets, said veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde, who claimed the deal would actually lessen competition.
Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan yesterday defended Australia's national telecommunications regulatory regime.
Optus and Telstra have worked out issues around sending multi-media messages between the two networks.
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A software fault that compromised users' ability to dial emergency numbers using a newly-released mobile telephone has prompted a major review of the standards phones are required to meet before being sold in Australia
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Hutchison Telecoms, which owns Orange, has outsourced the operation of its Australian mobile networks to Ericsson Australia in a seven-year deal that is expected to save the telco over AU$40 million.
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