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ACCC targets tech platforms

Australia’s competition watchdog has launched an inquiry into the impact digital platforms like Facebook and Google are having on media and advertising disruption. The federal government has formally instructed...

ACCC’s crack new data unit

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The ACCC has established a new data analytics unit to help crack down on the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in price-fixing. In a speech delivered to...

ACCC launches NBN investigation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The competition watchdog has set up a public inquiry into the National Broadband Network’s wholesale service standards in the wake of record numbers of complaints from consumers and a...

ACCC brings a stick to the NBN

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The competition watchdog’s draft report into the country’s communications sector has lobbed into the middle of an NBN battlefield as the network engages in landmark price negotiations, and fights...

Telco’s brace for ACCC draft report

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The ACCC will release a draft report on competition issues in the telecommunications sector within days, just as the industry labours under a barrage of bad publicity following the...

Complaint file grows at NBN Co

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Criticism of NBN Co’s failure to address consumer complaints is steadily increasing. Rather than address the complaints, NBN CEO Bill Morrow and his growing team of media handlers and...

Mobile roaming is now a snore

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There was the usual wailing and gnashing of the teeth when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission surprised the industry last week by deciding it would not force Telstra...

No progress on ACCC startup rule

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A lack of clarity from the competition watchdog and government on the proposed crackdown on startup acquisitions could lead to an “investment freeze” in Australia, Shadow Minister for the...

Telco reform an attack on the ACCC

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Turnbull Government’s threatening stance towards the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been ramped up with the announcement that plans to repeal the telecommunications-specific anti-competitive conduct laws...

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...