The Governments of Australia's three largest states have been touting their respective credentials as the optimum location for the headquarters of the NBN Co in the belief that it will bring significant employment and other financial benefits, but comments made by NBN Co executive chairman, Mike Quigley, suggest that the organisation could have several capital city offices of roughly equal importance.
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End-user pricing for access to basic services through the National Broadband Network would need to be comparable to existing price levels for the venture to be successful, NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley says.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy expects the complex negotiations with Telstra over its regulatory future to be complete by the beginning of December, and says enough preparatory work has already been done to make that deadline realistic.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Avaya has won the auction for Nortel Enterprise Solutions, paying almost double the $US475m price in its stalking horse bid announced in July.
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The NBN Co has named five senior executives, all with strong backgrounds in various aspects of telecommunications. Christy Boyce (head of industry engagement); Greg Willis (head of program delivery); Jean-Pascal Beaufret (CFO); Kevin Brown (chief human resources officer & head of corporate services) and Tim Smeallie (head of commercial strategy)
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The ACCC has a formal process for accepting commentary on its draft decisions, but the major telcos are bypassing this with direct appeals to the ACCC's chairman, Graeme Samuel.
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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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The CEOs of a number of Australia's leading telecommunications companies and ISPs - previously members of the Terria carrier grouping formed to bid for the NBN Mark 1 - have reunited to counter what they say is the large amount of misinformation being reported about the National Broadband Network.
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In early 2008 Atug launched a campaign against excessive and largely unexpected international mobile roaming charges. There was a parliamentary enquiry and several recommendations for government action. Government has now tabled its response offering little that is likely to see prices come down.
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Optus has today come out with a new application that allows its customers using an iPhone to check their billings, monitor their call and data usage, as well as accessing other services, all for free.
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