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The NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, is set to issue a wholesale pricing review to a number of telecommunications providers on Thursday in a bid to quell disquiet in the industry.

Australians need to have access to affordable broadband and voice services, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Australia's peak body for consumer representation in communications, says, adding that it looks forward to engaging with new Communications Minister Paul Fletcher to support this outcome.

Both TPG Telecom and Vodafone Hutchison Australia will make sufficient concessions to the ACCC that would see TPG remaining in the market as a price-fighter brand, well-known telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says, three days ahead of the date on which a final decision on the proposed merger between the two companies is due to be handed down.