Australia - Competition and Regulation Issues - 2009-2010


Synopsis

In a rather haphazard way a certain amount of progress has been made. Since early 2007, after nearly a decade of regulatory wrangling, commercially viable prices for several wholesale services have been set by the ACCC. The new OPEL company won the bid for a new regional telecoms network. The metropolitan fibre network is now under review also and this will need to be based on open network principles. Telstra is fighting tooth and nail to try and keep as much of its monopoly in place as possible, but it appears to be fighting a losing battle. Eventually structural reforms are inevitable – they will either be implemented voluntarily by Telstra or forced upon it by regulation. Competition has delivered $900 million of benefits in 2007 according to the government. In early 2008 the industry laid down 17 recommendations for the national Broadband Network. By 2009 the discussions had moved to the NBN environment.



Table of Contents

  • 1. Synopsis
  • 2. Wholesale Market (separate report)
  • 3. Regulatory telco reforms
    • 3.1 Overview of the proposed changes
    • 3.2 BuddeComm analysis of the reforms
    • 3.3 Separation good news for resellers
    • 3.4 To separate or not to separate (Analysis December 2009)
  • 4. Broken regulatory systems and the NBN - analysis Mid 2009
  • 5. The 17 National Broadband Network principles
    • 5.1 Ubiquity
    • 5.2 Open Access Network environment
    • 5.3 Industry benefits
    • 5.4 Technology
    • 5.5 Leveraging government investment
    • 5.6 Education
    • 5.7 Working groups
  • 6. ULL access
  • 7. Related reports


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Number of pages: 9

Status: Current

Last update: 18 December 2009
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