At the same time Optus, like Telstra, is suffering from thensharp erosion of the telephony market. Customers arenusing cheaper alternatives and, even in Australia, the smallncompany, Lebara, which was launched here only a year ago,nwas reported as being one of the causes of this decline. Thisncompany operates in the international ethnic calling cardnmarket and is offering very aggressive prices for mobile calls.nVodafone has been experiencing serious network problems,nbut even so, despite expectations to the contrary, Optusnhas not been able to benefit significantly from the fact thatnVodafone has lost many customers in that process.
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