ACCC challenges Telstra.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 November 2006-ACCC: ACCC challenges Telstra(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30112006 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a series of challenges to Telstra. Telstra should "throw the switch" on ADSL2 in the exchanges which were capable of being enabled to ADSL2 and offer high speed broadband to the vast majority of Australians, as it could, ACCC Chairman, Mr Graeme Samuel, said today*.

"Don't wait for your competitors to move first, thus forcing you into action. "And stop using the now overplayed excuse of 'regulatory constraints' as a subterfuge, in the hope that you might be able to persuade our politicians to remove regulations designed to foster and promote competition in the communications...