The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 07 April 2009 10:25
“For example, small and medium sized businesses could expect price cuts of 40 percent.”
Foreman reminds us that “Australian communications competitors and consumer representatives have called for reforms to create a competitive level playing field for 15 years, and these changes have the potential to do that.”
According to Foreman, overseas experience shows that it can be confidently predicted that competitors will “respond immediately even if the start date for some aspects of the reform package are ahead of us.”
Foreman congratulates Minister Conroy and the Government on making such a “far sighted decision on industry reform in a way that no Government had previously been willing to do.”
I suspect it won’t be long before the next installment in the NBN wars with some spice added to the mix of public debate by both of these old warhorses. Stay tuned to iTWire!
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