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Tom Worthington <tomw@acslink.net.au> wrote:

>I just noticed that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 
>(ACCC) was conducting a public inquiry into whether to "declare" services 
>allowing intercarrier roaming between existing and new digital mobile 
>networks.
>
>"...roaming can enable the customers of a new mobile carrier in the 1.8 
>GHz band in a metropolitan area to use an existing GSM network where the 
>new network has no presence, such as in regional or country areas." 

So now if I spend a couple of billion dollars building a GSM network,
someone else can come along, put up one tower, and I am forced to let
them use my infrastructure to say they have universal coverage?

Is this the same ACCC which would not let someone buy Australis
because it would reduce the number of pay TV operators in the country,
so it let them go broke and there are fewer pay TV operators in the
country?

Is this the same ACCC which would not let Wattyl (an Australian
company) buy Taubmans but was happy for a South African company to buy
Taubmans?

Have we gone mad?


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