TELECOMMUNICATIONS – AUSTRALIA – REGULATION

Telstra warns of higher mobile bills over $7.2b fee

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Original article by Ronald Mizen
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 11-Feb-26

The Australian Communications & Media Authority has proposed charging telcos a combined $7.2bn to renew spectrum licences that are slated to expire between 2028 and 2032. ACMA had previously proposed charging Telstra, Optus, TPG Telecom and NBN Co between $5bn and $6.2bn in total for renewing their licences; it has attributed the higher price to factors such as changes to methodology and benchmarking. Telstra’s share of the revised fee would be about $2.7bn, but the telco estimates that its fair share is $1.4bn; it has warned that the cost of the new pricing regime would be passed on to customers via higher mobile phone bills.

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AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY, TELSTRA GROUP LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPG, NBN CO LIMITED

Terror failings ‘expose data flaws’

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Original article by Jared Owens
The Australian – Page: 2 : 13-Jan-15

Australian Attorney-General George Brandis claims it is "urgent" for telcos to be required to keep customers’ telephone and internet records for a minimum of two years. Critics of the Government’s data retention proposals say the Sydney siege and Paris terrorism attacks show that the reforms cannot safeguard people against extremists. Senator Scott Ludlam of the Australian Greens points out that the authorities were familiar with the perpetrators in both Sydney and Paris

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AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, LIBERAL-NATIONAL PARTY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION, AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION

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