MOBILE TELEPHONES – AUSTRALIA

Bill hikes, investment warning as telcos face $7.3bn spectrum slug

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Original article by Jack Quail
The Australian – Page: 17 : 17-Dec-25

More than 80 per cent of the spectrum liccnces held by Australian telcos are slated to expire between 2028 and 2032. The Australian Communications & Media Authority has increased its estimate of the value of the spectrum licences to $7.3bn, compared with its previous valuation of $5bn to $6.2bn. ACMA chair Nerida O’Loughlin contends that the new estimate represents a "fair price" for spectrum, which is a public asset. However, telcos have warned that any increase in the cost of spectrum licences will affect their ability to invest in network upgrades, and could result in higher prices for mobile plans.

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AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY

TPG could lift mobile prices despite block on sharing deal

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Original article by Lucas Baird
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 23-Dec-22

Morningstar analyst Brian Han says the proposed regional mobile network sharing deal between TPG Telecom and Telstra is "not completely dead", given that both telcos intend to appeal the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s ruling. Amongst other things, the ACCC took the view that approving the deal would have given TPG an incentive to increase its mobile prices as soon as the network-sharing arrangement was completed. However, Eric Choi of Barrenjoey contends that TPG would have been likely to increase its mobile prices even if the ACCC had approved the deal. He notes that TPG is the only major telco that has not yet increased its consumer prices.

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TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPG, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, MORNINGSTAR PTY LTD, BARRENJOEY CAPITAL PARTNERS PTY LTD

Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards 2019: Australia’s telecommunications and utilities winners

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 25-Feb-20

The annual Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards have been presented in Melbourne. The telecommunications and utilities category consisted of six awards, two of which were won by previous award winner, Internode. Internode’s wins in the Internet Service Provider and Home Phone Provider categories took its annual award tally to seven. In both categories it won eight monthly awards, out of a possible 12, throughout 2019. In the two mobile phone categories, ALDImobile narrowly clinched its second annual Mobile Phone Service Provider award, adding to its first win in 2015. Google Phone won the Handset Provider of the Year award, becoming the only provider to have ever beaten the iPhone. In what may be a changing of the guard, both utilities awards went to first-time winners. Powershop finished on top in the Electricity Provider of the Year category, after a dominant year which consisted of 12 monthly award wins. Simply Energy also won its first annual award in the Gas Provider of the Year category.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

TPG-Vodafone merger victory

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Original article by Jared Lynch
The Australian – Page: 19 & 24 : 14-Feb-20

Federal Court Justice John Middleton ruled on 13 February that the $15 billion merger between Vodafone and TPG should be allowed to proceed. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission had vetoed the merger in May on the grounds that it would leave market power in the hands of three big telcos, but Justice Middleton said leaving Vodafone and TPG as separate entities would not create more competition in the retail mobile market. Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said the merger is likely to benefit consumers and lead to greater competition.

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TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, VODAFONE AUSTRALIA LIMITED, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS

Boost Mobile and ALDImobile locked in tight race for annual satisfaction award

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 10-Dec-19

Boost Mobile is the winner of Roy Morgan’s Mobile Phone Service Provider of the Month Award for October 2019, with a customer satisfaction rating of 89%. Boost Mobile now sits equal with ALDImobile on four monthly satisfaction wins for 2019, setting up a close finish for the annual award. Boost Mobile is followed by ALDImobile (85%), TPG (79%) and Belong (79%). It is important to note that Boost Mobile is not itself a network provider but rather a ‘Mobile Virtual Network Operator’, which utilises the underlying Telstra mobile network to provide its service. When it comes to underlying mobile networks, the Vodafone network with an overall customer satisfaction rating of 77% is narrowly ahead of the Telstra network on 76% and the Optus network on 74%. These ratings have been drawn from the Roy Morgan Single Source survey, derived from in-depth face-to-face interviews with around 50,000 Australians each year in their homes.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, BOOST MOBILE, ALDIMOBILE, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, BELONG PTY LTD

Apple iPhone wins monthly satisfaction ratings, but Google Phone holds lead in race for the annual award

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 5-Nov-19

The Apple iPhone is the winner of Roy Morgan’s Handset Provider of the Month Award for September 2019, with a customer satisfaction rating of 92.6%. It was closely followed by Google Phone (92.5%), Motorola (92%), Samsung (89.9%) and LG (88.9%). Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine says Apple iPhone has been the market leader in terms of customer satisfaction for many years, winning the past seven Roy Morgan Mobile Handset of the Year Awards. However, the strong performance of Google during 2019 may represent a changing of the guard when it comes to phone handset satisfaction with a close contest between the two brands to decide this year’s winner. These latest customer satisfaction ratings have been drawn from the Roy Morgan Single Source survey, derived from in-depth face-to-face interviews with over 50,000 Australians each year in their homes.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, APPLE INCORPORATED, GOOGLE INCORPORATED, MOTOROLA INCORPORATED, LG ELECTRONICS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

The new minority – the home phone connected

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 3-Sep-19

New research from Roy Morgan shows that 66.5% of Australians had access to subscription/pay TV services at home in June 2019, compared with 61.6% in June 2018 and just 29.1% in June 2015. Driving the increase has been the huge take-up of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service Netflix, which is now accessible by around 11.5 million Australians. In total, 57.1% of Australians now have access to SVOD services (including Netflix, Stan and Amazon Prime. Only four years ago less than 2% of Australians had SVOD. The incredibly fast take-up of these new technologies, and the almost ubiquitous usage of mobile phones (now used by 95.9% of Australians), has accelerated the decline in home phones. Now 48.6% of the population have a home phone connected, down 9.5% points from a year ago. Over 96% of Australians had a home phone connection in 2001. These findings from the Roy Morgan Single Source survey are derived from in-depth face-to-face personal interviews with over 50,000 Australians each year in their homes.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, NETFLIX INCORPORATED, STAN ENTERTAINMENT PTY LTD, AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

ALDImobile on top with fourth Roy Morgan monthly award in 2019

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 3-Sep-19

ALDImobile has won the Roy Morgan Mobile Phone Service Provider Monthly Customer Satisfaction Award for July 2019 with a customer satisfaction rating of 83%. ALDImobile’s rating has fallen 1% over the last year, although it has displaced former market leader Boost Mobile, whose customer satisfaction rating has fallen by 8% in the last year to 82%. Third-placed Vodafone has a customer satisfaction rating of 79%, just ahead of TPG and Belong (both on 78%). These are the latest findings from the Roy Morgan Single Source survey, derived from in-depth face-to-face interviews with 1,000 Australians each week in their homes and over 50,000 each year.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, ALDIMOBILE, BOOST MOBILE, VODAFONE AUSTRALIA LIMITED, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, BELONG PTY LTD

Google refuses to budge from top spot in mobile handset customer satisfaction

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 6-Aug-19

Google has won the Roy Morgan Mobile Phone Handset Customer Satisfaction Award for June 2019. Google received a satisfaction rating of 94%, which is a 4% increase since June 2018. It was followed by Apple iPhone (93%), Samsung (90%), LG (90%) and Motorola (90%). Google and Apple iPhone have now held first and second position respectively for eleven months straight. Of the top five brands, LG enjoyed the largest increase to its satisfaction ratings from a year ago (up 13%). However, LG’s rating has remained at around 90% for the past five months. The only decrease in ratings went to Motorola, with a 2% drop compared to a year ago.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, GOOGLE INCORPORATED, APPLE INCORPORATED, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED, LG ELECTRONICS, MOTOROLA INCORPORATED

Australians are bringing their own phone to new mobile plans

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Market Research Update – Page: Online : 2-Jul-19

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey shows that 89.9% of Australians aged 14+ (18.6 million people) now own a mobile phone. This is up 0.7% points on a year ago and up 2.1% points from two years ago. Now 26.8% of Australians are on a post-paid mobile phone plan after providing their own mobile phone for the plan, up 5.8% points from two years ago. In addition, 32.9% of Australians have a pre-paid mobile phone, up 2.5% points from two years ago. In contrast, there has been a decline in the market for traditional mobile phone plans that include a handset, with 29.7% of Australians now having a post-paid mobile phone plan that includes a new phone, down 6.8% points in two years. There has also been a shift in the way pre-paid/’bring your own phone’ consumers purchase their mobile phone plans; from a shop is still the preferred way for over half (51.5%) of these consumers, but the numbers of customers purchasing a plan online has increased by 7.9% points to 23.7% over the last two years.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED