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ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead
The ACCC has cleared, provisionally, the proposed deal between Optus and NBN Co under which Optus is to be paid around $800m to shut down its HFC network and transfer customers onto the NBN. read moreWelcome mat out for NBN from Telstra and CCC
Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 07 April 2009 09:25
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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