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Australia rejects Telstra’s price rise
19 May 2010
The Australian Competition Tribunal has rejected Telstra’s bid to raise the wholesale price for access to its copper network
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Telstra’s bid to raise the cost to access its copper fixed-line network by its retail rivals has been dismissed by Australia’s competition regulator. The Australian Competition Tribunal rejected the company’s proposal to set the monthly wholesale cost per household for its unconditioned local loop to $30, instead of the $16 price set by the regulator.
Telstra’s pricing application is not based on the “efficient cost” of offering the infrastructure, according to the tribunal. The ruling is related to wholesale pricing from August 2009 to the end of 2010.
For over five years, Telstra has been seeking to win the right to impose a $30 monthly access fee on wholesale customers looking to use its copper network to deliver telephony and internet services to clients in metropolitan cities. GTB