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• ​Updated: ACCC rules against banks in Apple Pay fight

  A group of Australian banks have lost a fight to collectively negotiate with Apple and boycott the iPhone maker's payments platform, Apple Pay.

• ​ACCC to ISPs: Stop misleading consumers about broadband speeds

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has published principles to ensure ISPs claims about broadband speeds aren’t misleading under Australian Consumer Law.

• Aussie banks shoot down Apple’s fee fears

  Aussie banks hit back at Apple in the latest round of the ongoing Apple Pay collective negotiation stoush.

• AGL phishing scam hits local inboxes

  A new phishing email is hitting inboxes that impersonates energy company AGL and scams vulnerable people affected by recent storms and flooding into believing they could receive additional help with their bills.

• ​ACCC concerned about Telstra’s role in NBN

  NBN Co and Telstra have agreed to work with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to ensure Australia’s largest telco won’t gain an unfair advantage over competitors rolling out the national broadband network.

• Aussies lost $230 million to scams in 2015

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Targeting Scams Report found in total, more than $229 million was lost to scams in 2015.
  

• ​ACCC gives green light to taxi booking app

  The ACCC given the green light to smartphone taxi booking app, ihail, almost six months after blocking the app over concerns it would reduce competition.
  

• ACCC proposes 'superfast' broadband regulation

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released a draft proposal to declare a Superfast Broadband Access Service (SBAS) in a bid to prevent any localised monopoly on provisioning.

• Telstra access pricing to drop by 9.4%

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ordered Telstra to cut the price it charges other telcos to access its copper network by 9.4 per cent, which may mean cheaper phone and internet services for consumers.
  

• Customers being duped on broadband speeds

  Broadband customers purchasing a 100Mbps service through a particular retail service provider (RSP) may not have been receiving the service they paid for, according to an ACCC report.​​

• Telstra to take wholesale price hit

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is eyeing a 9.6 per cent drop in prices that operators pay to use Telstra’s copper network to provide telecommunications services.
  

• NBN, Telstra seal network deal

  NBN will take ownership of Telstra’s copper and hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) cables to accelerate the rollout of the national broadband network after the competition watchdog gave final approval for the companies’ $11 billion deal.
  

• ACCC probing TPG/iiNet deal over lack of competition

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating if TPG Telecom’s proposed acquisition of iiNet would substantially lessen competition in the market for the supply of retail fixed broadband services.
  

• Uniform price changes to use Telstra’s copper network will provide ‘stability’: ACCC

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released a draft decision on prices other telcos and operators would pay to use fixed line services supplied by Telstra on its copper network.

• ACCC approves NBN Co's special access undertaking

  NBN Co’s special access undertaking (SAU) has at last been approved by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).