Australian consumers are missing out on high-speed broadband services as Telstra protects its stake in Foxtel.
Telstra’s ownership of the copper network and its 50% stake in Foxtel has contributed to its decision to artificially limit the speed of ADSL “broadband” services, a Senate Committee heard today.
In a startling revelation, Dr Paul Brooks from the Australian [...]
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Consumers lose as Telstra slows ADSL to protect Foxtel
Future-proofing a scam: Telstra Inquiry
The Senate inquiry into the Telstra sale bill has exposed the Howard Government’s claim that the network be “future-proofed” as a complete scam.
Telstra is still installing cheap ‘line splitting’ equipment in rural and regional Australia despite it halving dial-up internet connection speeds and blocking ADSL (broadband) services.
In short, this means that rural and regional Australians [...]
Telstra does it again on broadband access
Telstra has admitted that yet another customer was denied a broadband service on the grounds of line condition when applying through a competitor, only to be later accepted when applying through Telstra’s BigPond.
According to an answer to a Question on Notice, Telstra has admitted that the complaint occurred on 28 July 2003.
This is evidence that [...]
Telstra’s tactics push Australia down the global broadband rankings
A recent OECD Report has shown that Telstra has deliberately delayed the introduction of broadband technologies in order to use its market domination to get the jump on any competition.
This has contributed to Australia’s slide down international broadband league tables.
The OECD Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Services Policies, specifically refers to the spoiling role [...]
Alston mute as Telstra plays games with ADSL
I have today formally requested the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate Telstra for potential breaches of the Trade Practices Act in relation to ADSL connections. (click here to see letter)
Just a month ago whirlpool.net.au, an online broadband news organisation, revealed that Telstra wholesale rejected an ADSL broadband application from a customer of iiNet [...]
$2 billion: the cost of Telstra’s neglect
Telstra has revealed that it would cost $2 billion to replace the pair gain (line splitting) technology it has used throughout Australia.
This line splitting technology was used by Telstra to reduce its capital expenditure. Unfortunately, “pair gains” mean that over 1.2 million Australians have slower dial-up internet connection speeds as a result. They also block [...]
Alston and Telstra: working together to give you slower internet
The Minister for Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston today told Australian internet users frustrated by slow dial-up speeds that they will have to keep waiting to be guaranteed even minimal internet speeds.
The Estens Report recommended that the Government require Telstra to guarantee a minimum internet speed of 19.2 kilobits per second, but Senator Alston’s attitude [...]
Local Libs just johnnie-come-latelies to Gungahlin’s broadband woes
Today’s johnnie-come-lately announcement from local Liberals that they have finally decided to take a look at the poor service provided by Telstra to Gungahlin residents is nothing more than political opportunism.
Locally, the Liberal Party has never shown the slightest interest in the residents of Gungahlin who for over a year now, have been demanding improved [...]
ACCC investigation into Internet interconnection inequities inspires hope
Telstra has been throwing its weight around the Internet in Australia for long enough. Now the ACCC will be taking a closer look at the Internet peering, or interconnection, arrangements Telstra negotiates with other carriage and internet service providers (ISPs) which has led to smaller ISPs wearing unfair charges when their customers send email or [...]
ACCC investigation into Telstra’s contract tactics welcome
Labor welcomes the ACCC investigation into Telstra’s alleged tactic of using contractual provisions to make captive, or lock in, its clients.
If this tactic were applied to public sector agencies, it would run counter to the Federal Government’s stated purchasing policy.
Put simply, if federal departments and agencies were to permit Telstra to ‘capture’ them by contractually [...]
