[AusNOG] Telstra flicks switch on high speed broadband network

[Stephen Baxter]

> Because the way it looks to me is that the Communications Minister and
> Telstra have ganged-up on the ACCC, trying to force their will as a 
> fait accomplis.  At the end of the day, the Communications 
> Minister can
> say whatever he likes about regulatory certainty, but the 
> Trade Practices
> Act doesn't give him (or any other Minister) the authority to 
> promulgate
> determinations like this.
> 
> It'll be very interesting to see what the ACCC has to say 
> about that in the
> next few days.  In particular, if the ACCC has made a 
> decision, why wasn't
> it announced under their letterhead by Graeme Samuels?  Are 
> they likely
> to be just as surprised about this outcome as we have been?


Bingo. The TPA exists and the ACCC is bound follow/enforce it.

SB