TPG-Vodafone merger could create a less competitive market: ACCC
In a preliminary review of the proposed merger between Vodafone and TPG, the consumer watchdog revealed a potential impact on Australia's mobile broadband markets.
In a preliminary review of the proposed merger between Vodafone and TPG, the consumer watchdog revealed a potential impact on Australia's mobile broadband markets.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued new rules for Internet service providers (ISPs) that will require them to periodically hand over to the ACCC a range of data relating to services on their networks.
A parliamentary inquiry into the roll out of the National Broadband Network in regional and rural areas has called on the government to update the modelling used to underpin a levy scheme that has been dubbed an ‘NBN tax’.
NBN Co’s chief executive Stephen Rue has rejected calls by telcos to cut the company’s wholesale prices.
TPG has delivered an average download speed on the NBN of 88.7 per cent, making it the fastest ISP tracked by the consumer watchdog.
Telecommunications provider Amaysim Australia has entered into an asset sale deed to sell its fixed line broadband customer base to Southern Phone.
Publicly-listed Spirit Telecom has been awarded $1.7 million to deliver high-speed broadband to the city of Horsham as an alternative to the NBN.
The head of the ACMA says that the regulator has found evidence that telcos are not abiding by new complaints-handling rules.
Uniti Wireless has been awarded a $5 million grant from the South Australia Government as it extends its high-speed broadband alternative to the NBN.
NBN Co is now projecting revenue of $3.9 billion in FY20, down $1 billion from its previous forecasts.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says that its latest report based on wholesale market data provided by NBN Co shows positive signs for competition.
NBN Co will progressively enable the DOCSIS 3.1 cable broadband standard across its hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) infrastructure, as it begins to ramp-up the number of premises connected to its access network using the technology.
When Australia bankrolled undersea internet cables for its Pacific neighbours, it shut out a competing offer from Huawei Technologies.
Superloop has acquired the fibre broadband customer base of SkyMesh for $1.5 million.
Optus has revealed it will stop selling Virgin Mobile Australia services as of 15 June with all the retail stores under its outgoing Virgin Mobile brand to be closed by the end of June.