Articles tagged with: Optus and Accc

Australia's Optus Sued Over Pre-Paid Calling Card Subsidiary

Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission has launched legal action against a pre-paid phone card subsidiary of mobile network operator, optus. The ACCC says that it has instituted legal proceedings in the Federal Court, Perth, against Prepaid Services Pty Limited and Boost Tel Pty Limited for alleged contraventions of the consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in relation to the sale of their pre-paid phone cards. Prepaid Services Pty Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of optus Mobile, which is a member of the optus Group of companies.  more

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Optus Loses GSM Termination Rate Dispute

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says that it has welcomed a decision by the Australian Competition Tribunal to reject optus's proposed undertaking for the supply of its Domestic GSM Terminating Access Service. more

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Australia's ACCC: Won't Oppose Vodafone, Optus 3G Pact"

Australia's competition regulator said Tuesday it won't oppose an arrangement for the local units of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (s12.SG) and Vodafone PLC (VOD) to share a third generation mobile telephone network.  more

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Regulatory hurdle for Vodafone in Australia

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said that it has serious concerns about a possible purchase of the optus GSM network by Vodafone Australia, as this would give it a 51% market share. "There's an obvious, very serious problem of the mobile phone part of the transaction," ACCC Chairman Allan Fels told reporters yesterday, adding "Our starting position would be that Vodafone couldn't acquire optus in any simple sense."" more

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