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Transcript: Stephen Conroy's opening address to media
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2009-09-15 03:22:42
The following is a transcript of the opening address of Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy to a Media Conference at Parliament House, Canberra on Tuesday September 15.


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Conroy tightens measures to protect telecoms consumers
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-15 03:03:06
Consumer protection aspects of telecoms legislation - such as the standard telephone service, the provision of payphones and the customer service guarantee will be tightened considerably under the proposed new telecommunications legislation and much greater control given to the minister and the ACMA.


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Transcript: Media Conference Q&A with Stephen Conroy
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2009-09-15 02:50:07
The following is a transcript of the questions and answers discussion conducted by Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy at Parliament House, Canberra on Tuesday September 15.


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Telstra Tanks: Shareholders smell a Future Fund rat
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2009-09-15 02:18:13
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has rejected suggestions that the sell-down of Telstra shares by the Future Fund three weeks ago was in anticipation of the government’s announcement today of telecommunications regulatory reform.


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Euphoric welcome for new telecoms legislation
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-15 02:02:41
Much of the telecoms industry - individual companies and organisations - has greeted the government's proposed new telecommunications rapturously, saying it addresses most of the concerns they have been airing for years and will give the industry a major boost.


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Structural Separation: Conroy's second big surprise
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2009-09-15 00:33:54
The legislation announced today by communications minister Stephen Conroy goes further than most of the industry had expected "I keep checking that the date isn't 1st April" one CE commented). It's the second big surprise the minister has pulled out of the hat this year.


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Legislation "unnecessary" says Telstra, and the Opposition agrees
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-14 23:41:24
Telstra says the government's proposed legislation putting it under intense pressure to structurally separate is unnecessary given that Telstra is actively discussing its involvement in the National Broadband Network.


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Conroy's telecoms reforms: What did the Future Fund know?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-14 23:22:01
The Australian Shareholders' Association is furious at the Government for forcing structural or functional separation on Telstra, and questions what the Future Fund knew when it sold down its Telstra shareholding.


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New legislation gives greater protection to Telstra competitors
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-14 22:32:05
The Government has unveiled legislation that would create the biggest shift in the telecommunications competition and access regime since market liberalisation in 1997.


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Telstra faces structural separation: Government ultimatum
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-14 20:48:46
Telstra has been given an ultimatum by the government: either cease to be both an owner of and service provider on the PSTN or face forced functional separation, divestiture of its HFC and Foxtel assets and limitations on spectrum acquisition.


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Major telcos promise to tell the truth when advertising
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-14 02:11:45
Australia's three largest telecoms operators (and their subsidiary MVNOs) have given a court enforceable undertaking to the ACCC that, according to the ACCC, commits them to "the basic principle of truth in advertising."


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VHA close to being Australia's number two mobile operator
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-13 23:31:16
VHA, the mobile operator formed from the merger of Vodafone Australia and Hutchison Australia, has overtaken Optus in 3G customer numbers, has the highest monthly per customer revenue of any of the three operators and is neck-and-neck with Optus on overall revenues, according to market researcher, Telsyte.


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Telstra's competitors warn ACCC its decision will mean higher prices
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-13 02:48:57
The CEOs of seven of Telstra's fixed line competitors - Netspace; Macquarie Telecom; Optus; iiNet; Primus; Internode and TransACT - have written to ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel, warning that the ACCC's recently published indicative prices for fixed line services, if implemented, would lead to a significant increase in prices of services to end users.


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Nuisance emergency callers face phone blocking
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-08 00:46:42
People who repeatedly make non-genuine calls to Australia's triple zero emergency call number from their mobile phone now face the possibility of having it barred from making calls, except to 000, under new measures announced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.


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Nowwearetalking, now we are glad that you are gone
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2009-09-07 01:06:16
Telstra has, without warning, closed down its controversial nowwearetalking website and will replace it with what it promises will be "a more engaging, interactive site under the main telstra.com umbrella." Few will mourn NWAT's passing.


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Telstra announces third UK data centre
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Enterprise

2009-09-06 20:09:04
Telstra has announced another major data centre in the UK. It will be used as a hosting centre for the telco's enterprise customers.


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The Telstra Outage – what do we know?
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2009-09-03 05:17:37
This morning, for a total of 65 minutes, Telstra internet customers were entirely unable to access any web site outside of Australia.  What happened?


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Cost reductions from WAN outsourcing: research
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-09-01 23:24:58
Telstra claims that the majority of Australian organisations managing their own Wide Area Networks (WANs) are incurring network operational costs of up to 38 per cent more than they should be, according to research it commissioned into the market.


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