Competition rules and access regime strengthened

摘要

The Government has unveiled legislation that would create the biggest shift in the telecommunications competition and access regime since market liberalisation In 1997.rnThe new rules are one part of a package of major reforms announced on 15 September by communications minister senator Stephen Conroy that includes provisions to force functional separation on Telstra unless it voluntarily embarks on structural separation and divesture of its Foxtel and pay TV cable network assets.