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Access a sticking point in pay-TV talks.
Australasian Business Intelligence, October, 2002
Oct 31, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX)
Cable access by third parties has emerged as the main regulatory obstacle to Australia's proposed pay-TV alliance. The two leading operators, Telstra-controlled Foxtel and Singapore Telecommunications' SingTel Optus, have proposed a system under which Foxtel's program line-up must be taken before access is provided to Optus's cable network. Newspaper publisher, John Fairfax Holdings, is believed to have told the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) that, in effect, this means that the cable cannot be used for any other pay-TV service than Foxtel's. The ACCC and officials from Foxtel and Optus met on 31 October 2002 to try to seek a solution that did not restrict competition....
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