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- Smaller ISPs may become cheaper, faster.
- Jan 22, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Altering the way broadband data charges are allocated could result in better service in Australia. Such changes may occur if the Australian Government pursues a suggestion by its Broadband Advisory Group to have ...
- Research articles 2003-01-22
- Watchdog checks pre-paid phone cards.
- Dec 26, 2002 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC has launched an investigation of pre-paid mobile telephones. The ACCC is concerned that some of the supposedly "hassle-free" pre-paid deals offered by Singtel Optus and Telstra lock unsuspecting...
- Research articles 2002-12-26
- Money up front - but innocents still locked in.
- Dec 26, 2002 (The Daily Telegraph - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian telcos Singtel Optus and Telstra will have their pre-paid mobile telephone plans investigated. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC will look into the plans after revelations that they lock consumers in for...
- Research articles 2002-12-26
- Sydney: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission backs a revised A$1.30 billon alliance between Foxtel and SingTel Optus to share pay TV programs - $728 million - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
- Sydney: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission backs a revised A$1.30 billon ($728 million) alliance between Foxtel and SingTel Optus to share pay TV programs, on the grounds that the deal would provide improved access programs for all pay TV operators and a broader consumer choice. The ACCC also approves...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- Action heats up on interactive TV.
- Nov 18, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian interactive and digital TV will receive a boost from a pay-TV content sharing deal. The approval of a deal between Foxtel and Singtel Optus by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC means Foxtel...
- Research articles 2002-11-19
- Fels says yes to pay-TV content deal.
- Nov 13, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The face of pay-TV in Australia has been changed. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC has approved a massive content-sharing deal between Singtel Optus and Foxtel. This will increase the number of channels available...
- Research articles 2002-11-13
- Increased scrutiny of legislation likely.
- Nov 13, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Senate is likely to increase its scrutiny of the Telecommunications Competition Bill. This follows the decision by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC on 13 November 2002 to endorse an...
- Research articles 2002-11-14
- Access a sticking point in pay-TV talks.
- Oct 31, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Cable access by third parties has emerged as the main regulatory obstacle to Australia's proposed pay-TV alliance. The two leading operators, Telstra-controlled Foxtel and Singapore Telecommunications' SingTel Optus, have proposed a system under...
- Research articles 2002-10-31
- Ten brands Foxtel deal "unworkable".
- Oct 03, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) In Australia, Ten Network has formally opposed the planned pay-TV alliance between Foxtel and SingTel Optus. In a written submission to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC, the free-to-air television network said...
- Research articles 2002-10-03
- Rival gives Foxtel nod for restructure.
- Sep 30, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Neighbourhood Cable has endorsed the content sharing pay television deal proposed by Foxtel and Singtel Optus. Neighbourhood Cable is a regional Victorian pay television and high-speed Internet service provider. CEO, Fred Grossman, in reversing a...
- Research articles 2002-09-30
- Boss defends Foxtel charge.
- Sep 17, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel's CEO, Kim Williams, has defended the charges third parties would pay to access the group's network. In its undertaking to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC to have...
- Research articles 2002-09-17
- Pay TV revamp may mean 480 channels.
- Sep 05, 2002 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian pay TV operator Foxtel will spend $A600m converting its services to digital, making up to 480 channels available. The move to expand the current 50 channels is designed to allay fears that its integration...
- Research articles 2002-09-05
- Foxtel still has elbow room.
- Sep 08, 2002 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) Telstra, Foxtel's 50 per cent owner, has indicated it could improve its pay television anti-monopoly undertakings. Foxtel has undertaken to provide third party access to have the Australian competition regulator, the Australian Competition...
- Research articles 2002-09-08
- "Everything done" to please Fels.
- Aug 28, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Telstra has done all it can to satisfy the regulator on the planned alliance between Foxtel and SingTel Optus. So says Ziggy Switkowski, CEO of Telstra, which half-owns Foxtel, Australia's biggest but loss-making...
- Research articles 2002-08-28
- Watchdog eyes off revised pay-TV alliance plan.
- Aug 27, 2002 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian pay television giants Foxtel and Singtel Optus will release a revised plan for their proposed alliance in early September 2002. Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC chairman, Allan Fels, says he expects to rule...
- Research articles 2002-08-27
- Fels hoses down expectations for Foxtel-Optus merger.
- Jul 31, 2002 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- Regulatory approval is by no means assured for Foxtel's revised proposal for program sharing with Singtel Optus. On 31 July 2002, the chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC, Allan Fels, said...
- Research articles 2002-07-31
- Foxtel offers access to win pay-TV alliance.
- Jul 08, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Partners in the Australian pay television company, Foxtel, are seeking a strategic alliance with Singtel Optus. News Corporation, Publishing & Broadcasting and Telstra have promised to spend more than $A500m to convert...
- Research articles 2002-07-08
- Chisholm v Fels.
- ABIX via COMTEX) -- Legendary Australian media executive, Sam Chisholm, has had dealings with the competition regulator, Allan Fels, before. Known for his ability to negotiate deals behind the scene, Chisholm was called back to help News Corporation's proposed merger with Australis Media in 1996. On...
- Research articles 2002-06-24
- Foxtel to fight for pay-TV merger.
- ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian pay television group, Foxtel, will work to give media companies access to its cable. Foxtel's CEO, Kim Williams, said the central issue in winning approval for a $A1.3bn content-sharing deal with pay television rival Singtel Optus is a transparent and...
- Research articles 2002-06-24
- No surprises in watchdog's vigilant stand.
- ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian investors reacted mildly to news on 21 June 2002 that the Foxtel-Singtel Optus alliance had been rejected. According to UBS Warburg's media analyst, Nola Hodgson, no-one had expected the competition regulator to approve the deal. Shares in Optus's parent, Singapore Telecommunications,...
- Research articles 2002-06-24
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