Wholesale satellite broadband provider Ipstar Australia has lost a bid to overturn a $7 million judgment against it for allegedly providing defective equipment and engaging in unconscionable conduct in violation of consumer law.
Vodafone will have to cough up $295,000 to cover the legal bills of the ACCC and Telstra after falling short in its bid for judicial review of an ACCC decision not to declare a domestic mobile roaming service.
Optus has been sued for allegedly pressuring customers to move to the National Broadband Network before they needed to make the switch.
Competition for access to the National Broadband Network is ramping up, the ACCC said, and providers are buying more capacity to deliver on promised internet service speeds.
Telstra will offer refunds to some 42,000 customers after promising National Broadband Network speeds that couldn’t be delivered.
The ACCC has launched a public inquiry into the much maligned national broadband network, saying it will enforce new service standard rules if necessary.
Caps on the amount of spectrum available to any single company at the upcoming 5G auction could help prevent big operators from keeping out new players, the competition watchdog said Wednesday.
The likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon could find themselves in the crosshairs of a newly empowered Australian competition regulator, and Rod Sims wants to move fast, the chairman told Lawyerly.
Complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman about the National Broadband Network increased 79 percent in the past year, even when new additions to the network were taken into account, according to a new report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.