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Tackle Telstra or we all pay, says Optus boss

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 23 : 22-Oct-14

Dominant Australian telco Telstra will gain some $A90bn by 2045 from its role in the national broadband network. Paul O’Sullivan, CEO of main rival Singtel Optus, is calling on the Federal Government to impose rules on Telstra regarding how the funds can be used. He also wants the telco to be separated into wholesale and retail businesses, and argues that failure to do so will erode competition as well as jeopardise investment by groups such as the Singapore-based parent of Optus. The current infrastructure spending of Optus worth up to $A1.2bn annually will fall if its fixed-line operations suffer a further decline

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, IINET LIMITED – ASX IIN, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, NBN CO LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, FRONTIER ECONOMICS PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS, BT PLC

Smartphone users making video calls when their dearest aren’t nearest

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 14-Oct-14

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 21.8 per cent of Australian smartphone users aged 14+ who were born overseas made video calls in an average four-week period during the year to June 2014. This compares with just 11.3 per cent of those born in Australia. The survey also found that one in seven Australian smartphone users overall made video calls, compared with about one in eight a year ago

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, VODAFONE AUSTRALIA LIMITED, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, AMAYSIM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, LEBARA AUSTRALIA LIMITED, BOOST MOBILE

Telstra NBN deal delayed to 2015

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Original article by David Ramli
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 13 & 20 : 15-Oct-14

The Australian Government had expected to finalise a revised deal with Telstra regarding the national broadband network by mid-2014. Telstra CEO David Thodey is hopeful that much of the negotiations can be concluded by Christmas, but concedes that a final deal is unlikely before 2015. The Coalition’s decision to adopt a fibre to the node model has required renegotiation of the original $A11.2bn deal with the Australian Labor Party

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS, NBN CO LIMITED, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, IINET LIMITED – ASX IIN, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION

PwC enlisted to count cost of metadata laws

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 20 : 8-Oct-14

The Australian Government aims to soon pass new laws that will force telcos and ISPs to store metadata for 24 months, to boost national security. It has now emerged that a study has been commissioned from PricewaterhouseCoopers by the Attorney-General’s Department, of the projected cost burden for the sector that will be created by the implementation of the necessary IT solutions. Second-ranked telco Singtel Optus has put this at between $A30m and $A200m

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SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, IINET LIMITED – ASX IIN, TWITTER AUSTRALIA HOLDINGS PTY LTD, TWITTER INCORPORATED, FACEBOOK AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED

Over 1.5 million intend to buy an Apple iPhone, potential negative impact on bank fee revenue

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 29-Sep-14

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that more than 1.5 million Australians aged 14+ intend to purchase an iPhone in the next 12 months. The survey, which was carried out in the six months to June 2014, also shows that 29.4 per cent of iPhone intenders make payments via mobile phone in an average four-week period. Some 14.1 per cent of ING Direct customers intend to purchase an iPhone in the next year, while the ANZ Bank (9.7 per cent) has the highest proportion of intenders among the four major banks

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, APPLE INCORPORATED, ING DIRECT, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED – ASX ANZ, WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION – ASX WBC, NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED – ASX NAB, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – ASX CBA

Optus in download fast lane

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 19 : 22-Sep-14

Singtel Optus has upgraded its 4G mobile network with LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation technology. The telco has indicated that trials of the technology achieved download rates of 160Mbps, compared with a maximum potential download speed of 150Mbps for existing 4G networks. Current mobile devices cannot achieve the higher download speeds, although Optus expects to offer them in coming months

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SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS

Will the new iPhone 6 be the Apple of our eye?

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 9-Sep-14

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that almost 30 per cent of Australians aged 14+ own and use an iPhone. Some 700,000 Australian consumers bought an iPhone in the year to June 2014, compared with sales of about 1.2 million between 2010 and 2013. The survey shows that 8,045,000 Australians intend to buy or upgrade a mobile phone at some point in the future. This includes 2,672,000 iPhone users

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, APPLE INCORPORATED, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED, HTC CORPORATION

Hit fixed-lines only: Telstra

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 19 : 4-Sep-14

Telstra has lodged its submission to the Australian Government’s review of copyright infringement laws. The group argues that new requirements to warn off subscribers if they are caught illegally downloading content should apply to fixed-line services only, not to mobile ones. It also wants an exemption for business customers, claiming this will reduce the complexity of the new measures. Telstra seeks indemnity against any legal action by rights holders, and a contribution by them to the cost of the new scheme

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS

Macquarie hits political opposition in US network plan

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Original article by John Kehoe
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 15 & 19 : 1-Sep-14

The Utah Taxpayers Association opposes Macquarie Group’s proposal to complete the construction of an open-access broadband network in the state. Work on the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) project started about 10 years ago, and Macquarie wants to finance completion of the network. The original proposal was for the network to cover 11 cities in Utah

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MACQUARIE GROUP LIMITED – ASX MQG, UTAH TELECOMMUNICATION OPEN INFRASTRUCTURE AGENCY (UTOPIA), UTAH TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION, CENTURYLINK, COMCAST CORPORATION, MACQUARIE CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC, ECONOWEST ASSOCIATES

Metadata to be defined under planned new data retention laws

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Original article by Ben Grubb
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 5 : 28-Aug-14

Australian Attorney-General George Brandis has conceded that the definition of "metadata" is currently too ambitious and vague. He has pledged that new legislation to force telcos and ISPs into storing the information for as long as two years, in order to aid anti-terrorism investigations, will now contain clear details on what types of data are covered. An internal discussion paper has already excluded unified resource locators and destination internet protocol addresses

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AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, ELECTRONIC FRONTIERS AUSTRALIA INCORPORATED, SKYPE TECHNOLOGIES SA, WHATSAPP INCORPORATED, VIBER MEDIA INCORPORATED, BITTORRENT INCORPORATED