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The telecoms industry needs to be dragged into the 21st century, but the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is stuck in the past.
Four days before Christmas, regional Australians were dealt another blow when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) nixed a deal between Telstra and TPG to share mobile network infrastructure.
It was a wrong decision that will hurt both competition and especially regional mobile users.
Telstra is the mobile market leader with 48% market share, followed by SingTel Optus with 33% and then TPG, which runs the Vodafone network, third with 18%.
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