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Audit Office slaps USO contracts

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has found serious flaws with the Department of Communications’ contract management of selected telephone universal service obligations (USO). In a report released in...

Calls for an end to Telstra ‘subsidy’

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
The Productivity Commission has released a report calling for the called for phasing out of the Telecommunications Universal Service Obligation (TUSO). The TUSO is a subsidy the government (which...

Vodafone aims to fix ACCC blunder

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is to seek judicial review of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) draft decision to not declare a wholesale domestic mobile roaming service. The...

USO hurdles yet to be overcome

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Productivity Commission has released its draft report on the Universal Service Obligation (USO) and it has recommended sweeping changes. However, there appears little opportunity for government to make...

Telstra separation is the UK lesson

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The communications regulator in the UK, Ofcom, has notified BT that it is to legally separate from OpenReach after BT failed to offer voluntary proposals that address Ofcom’s competition...

Dave Sharma: Our man in Tel Aviv

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma is in the country for a couple weeks, in part to drum up business for Austrade’s new startup ‘Landing Pad’ in Tel Aviv....

Regions lose in telco policy fight

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
It is a national disgrace that must be born by every government since Bob Hawke’s that the Australian telecommunications market is still so effectively dominated by Telstra, which rakes...

TelcoLand disputes on overcharging

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Mobile Virtual Network Operators are the forgotten victims of rampant overcharging and anti-competitive behaviour at the heart of the telco battle about whether or not domestic mobile roaming should...

Malcolm’s Sesame Street moment

Posted on   |  by James Riley
“One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong; Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time...

No chance the USO will be dumped

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is “absolutely no chance” that government will end the Universal Service Obligation (USO) at the end of its review of the system, according to Telstra Group Director of...