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[Daniel_Mallorca1985]

Australia (ACCC) is done with the acquisition (was the most likely scenario):

16 Oct 2023

After considering the status and outcomes of other international regulators' reviews and changes to the transaction structure, including related agreements with third parties, the ACCC discontinued its review of the acquisition and does not intend to take any further action.

Another chapter to close.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Happy with my home country regulator on this one with regard to gaming. They've been pretty good at ISP bullshit sales plans over the years too.

 

[dreamstation]

ACCC are useless. I've gone to them with issues in regards to car dealerships in the past and nothing ever gets done. They quote what the car dealership sends them and case closed. Tough luck for the consumer.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Happy with my home country regulator on this one with regard to gaming. They've been pretty good at ISP bullshit sales plans over the years too.

Have they? I still hear that you guys are getting ripped off on your internet plans compared to the rest of the world.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

 

[dreamstation]

Have they? I still hear that you guys are getting ripped off on your internet plans compared to the rest of the world.

Yea not really. I'm paying $95 per month for 50/10 (I think) fixed wireless NBN with Telstra and that's the best internet I can get where I live. Should be half that. We always get ripped off.

 

[IFireflyl]

Yea not really. I'm paying $95 per month for 50/10 (I think) fixed wireless NBN with Telstra and that's the best internet I can get where I live. Should be half that. We always get ripped off.

Bruh! I'm paying $65/month for fiber Internet that is 940 Mbps up and down.

 

[dreamstation]

Bruh! I'm paying $65/month for fiber Internet that is 940 Mbps up and down.

Yea man. We get robbed and there is nothing we can do about it. So much for the NBN bringing us up to the 21st century haha. It's pathetic unless you live in one of the capital cities.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Bruh! I'm paying $65/month for fiber Internet that is 940 Mbps up and down.

I don't want to make this a competition or bum anyone out, but I'm paying around 10 bucks for 1 Gb fiber, lol.

Regardless, my heart goes out to our Aussie bros. Talk about a raw deal, geezus.

 

[hlm666]

Yea not really. I'm paying $95 per month for 50/10 (I think) fixed wireless NBN with Telstra and that's the best internet I can get where I live. Should be half that. We always get ripped off.

Same, except it used to be $70, seems to be going up 5 bucks every few months now for the past couple of years. Only got an email last week about the price going up to $100 on nov 1.

 

[Lord Panda]

The ACCC are a joke. Not surprised that they couldn't be arsed with all this

 

[dreamstation]

Same, except it used to be $70, seems to be going up 5 bucks every few months now for the past couple of years. Only got an email last week about the price going up to $100 on nov 1.

Well I just went and checked my email and sure enough I received the same notification last month which I somehow missed. Yea that is bullshit. Price goes up and nothing to show for it except Telstra being greedy cunts. Again.

 

[nikolino840]

What does it means? Is an ok or not?

 

[Topher]

Australia….

 

[Topher]

What does it means? Is an ok or not?

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Have they? I still hear that you guys are getting ripped off on your internet plans compared to the rest of the world.

Yes we are but it is more economies of scale sprinkled with some ripoff ISPs, we only have 26 million people in a country 75% as big as North America and only a few cities. ACCC have probably done about the best they could with the market conditions.

Edit: Our national broadband network (NBN) infrastructure rollout was a total debacle, blowing out from like $6Billlion to $50Billion and still pretty average.

 

[dreamstation]

NBN was meant to be fibre to every home. Then the liberals took government and downgraded it because it was going to be too expensive. Now we have fixed wireless 50/10 garbage at a cost higher than what was originally forecast.

 

[Black_Stride]

What does it means? Is an ok or not?

Basically they just said fuck it, we aint even gonna bother reviewing this shit.

 

[Silver Wattle]

Yea not really. I'm paying $95 per month for 50/10 (I think) fixed wireless NBN with Telstra and that's the best internet I can get where I live. Should be half that. We always get ripped off.

 

[dreamstation]

Yea that costs even more. $139 per month. Too expensive.

 

[Z O N E]

Yea not really. I'm paying $95 per month for 50/10 (I think) fixed wireless NBN with Telstra and that's the best internet I can get where I live. Should be half that. We always get ripped off.

THAT MUCH for THAT SPEED?

I pay £25 per month in the UK for 1GB/1GB. I could get 3GB/3GB speeds for £75 per month or 10GB/10GB if I really wanted, but that's overkill.