OPINION: The competition tribunal’s decision to block TPG and Telstra’s regional network sharing deal goes to the competition watchdog’s desire to keep Optus and Telstra fighting hard against each other.
Justice Michael O’Bryan, the president of the Australian Competition Tribunal, had a clear message for telco giants Telstra, TPG and Optus as he announced the tribunal hadThe tribunal’s main concern, O’Bryan said in a short determination hearing on Wednesday, “is the protection of competition in the retail and wholesale market … and not the protection of Optus as a competitor in those markets.”
Both Telstra and TPG say they will review the tribunal’s decision and consider taking it to the Federal Court for judicial review, although the grounds for appeal are narrower following Wednesday’s determination. Telstra’s biggest disappointment is that it has lost the opportunity to pick up more mobile spectrum, given competition concerns that have seen it blocked from spectrum auctions.
Investing in more towers in regional Australia is not always commercially viable, Brady says, so “as a country we need to be smarter about how we use our spectrum assets and there is a role for government to look at how we do that more efficiently”.
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