News Source: The Age
| 5 months ago
Canberra under a provocative plan to boost the local industry. Hot on the heels of a Chinese backlash following the collapse of the Rio Tinto Chinalco joint venture, the Federal Government has ventured into contentious foreign investment territory.
News Source: The Australian
| 5 months ago
Optus, Australia's second-biggest telecommunications company, is said to be holding high-level discussions with the federal government to sell its $1.5billion cable network into the NBN in return for equity in the new venture. Any deal would would...
News Source: The Australian
| 5 months ago
S challenge to retain control of both its wholesale and retail arms became even harder yesterday after almost every player in the telecoms sector hounded the government for some form of separation for the industry giant. Some submissions call on the...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 5 months ago
THE competition watchdog has upped the pressure on the Federal Government to break up Telstra by formally endorsing the split of its wholesale and retail arms. In a 374-page submission to the Government, the Australian Competition and Consumer...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 5 months ago
Australia's competition watchdog said Telstra Corp. should be split up to ensure a level playing field during the transition to a revamped national broadband network, but the company argues there's no need for such a move. The Australian Competition...
News Source: The Age
| 5 months ago
Competition and Consumer Commission has told the Federal Government the structural separation of Telstra is essential to its planned $43 billion national broadband network. But Telstra in its submission to the Government's review of...