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Telstra launches legal challenge to ACCC's competition notice
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-05-01 01:25:22

See also:
ACCC slaps competition notice on Telstra
Telstra refutes competition notice

Telstra has launched a legal challenge to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over the competition notice served on it last month for allegedly overcharging wholesale customers for line rentals. Telstra has accused the ACCC of "failure to follow the proper process required by law" 


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Telstra offers soft BlackBerry on Treo 650
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2006-04-30 09:04:15
Telstra has announced that BlackBerry Connect for the Palm's Treo 650 smartphone will be available on its cellular network early in May.

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Telstra tells Coonan: hands off our new 3G network
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-27 08:15:35
Telstra has reacted strongly to a press report quoting communications minister Helen Coonan saying that the Government might insist on regulated access to the 850MHz 3G network Telstra is rolling out to replace its CDMA network.

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Telstra calls for single trans-Tasman comms market
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-24 08:14:51
Telstra has renewed a long-standing call for a single trans-Tasman telecommunications market by bringing telecoms within the ambit of the Closer Economic Relationship agreement with New Zealand.

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Telstra slams rivals' plan for joint FTTN network
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-23 06:41:44
Telstra has branded the proposal by seven of its competitors for a jointly-funded broadband access network as "a self-serving plan to rip-off Telstra shareholders and taxpayers".

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New mobile players better at satisfying customers
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Reports & Surveys

2006-04-23 06:35:49
Newer entrants to Australia's mobile phone market are mounting a determined and increasingly successful attack against Telstra and Optus, according to Nielsen Media Research's Mobile Customer Monitor (MCM) for the December 2005 quarter.

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Telstra rivals call for jointly-funded FTTN network
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-20 20:41:39
A number of Telstra's largest telco and ISP competitors, lead by Optus, have made a joint call for collective investment in an open, national broadband access network, claiming that the model proposed by Telstra will harm broadband competition by keeping prices too high and suppressing take up.

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Downer wins Foxtel & Telstra contracts worth $360 million
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2006-04-18 06:38:52
Downer EDI's engineering division, Downer Engineering, has been awarded major field engineering contracts, from Foxtel and Telstra, worth a total of $360 million over four years.

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Optus sues Telstra over wholesale line rental price
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-18 05:59:17
Optus has initiated legal action against Telstra over its December 2005 increase in wholesale line rental prices.

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Primus offers fixed line 'bucket plans'
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2006-04-17 07:58:11
Primus Telecom has announced capped fixed line phone plans for residential customers that it claims can provide up to $250 worth of local, national, fixed to mobile and international calls per month.

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Telstra refutes competition notice
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-13 07:50:36

See also ACCC slaps competition notice on Telstra.

Telstra has hit back at the ACCC's competition notice issued over the price of its wholesale line rental service, claiming the price is fair and reasonable.


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ACCC slaps competition notice on Telstra
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-12 08:07:09
poker_cardsThe ACCC has issued Telstra with a competition notice following Telstra increasing the price of its Home Access product, used by its wholesale customers to provide line rental and local call services.

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ACCC and Telstra talking to resolve FTTN deadlock
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-12 08:05:59
The ACCC has responded to speculation that it is about to cut a deal with Telstra over Telstra's request for regulatory relief for its FTTN network by issuing a press release to "reassure the telecommunications industry and the public that decisions about access to any fibre-to-the node network would only be made after public scrutiny and due process."

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Alcatel snatches Nortel's Telstra account manager
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology people

Category: Appointments

2006-04-11 07:38:52
Alcatel Australia has appointed former Nortel executive, Shirley Cotterill to head its Telstra customer account team.
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Telstra to lean on SMS spammers
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2006-04-11 07:37:48
Telstra is taking action to help customers cancel receipt of SMS messages to their mobile phones for which they are charged a premium rate.

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Telstra makes first move against VoIP
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature

Category: VoIP

2006-04-11 03:03:47
Telstra has garnered great publicity from the low-key launch of its first fixed line 'bucket plans' seen as a prelude to the launch of VoIP services, but in reality the offer seems to be more about creating uncertainty in the market.

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Mobile operators eying DSLAMs
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2006-04-10 22:29:26

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Vodafone does the global splits

When the inevitable consolidation of Australia's multiple DSLAM networks takes place those operators looking to sell lout at a good price, or receivers/administrators trying to optimise returns for creditors might find a willing buyer from an unlikely quarter: Vodafone or even Hutchison.


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ACCC gives Telstra a 'fail' on wholesale v retail pricing
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2006-04-10 08:22:16
The ACCC says that Telstra has failed its imputation test for local call services (line rental and local calls combined) for both residential and business customers. It also fails the test for all other ADSL services except the bundle of ADSL and fixed-line voice services for business customers
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