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The relationship between the Australian government and the telco sector continues to deteriorate, with more carriers pushing back against Canberra's micro-management of their operations, with both industry regulation and security reforms as ongoing battlegrounds. Optus is the latest to raise its voice against the Department of …

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  1. Scoular

    Big business and right wing governments are always in favour of competition and deregulation except when it conflicts with their interests or beliefs.

    They they seamlessly switch to being proponents of orderly marketing or some other euphemism for regulation designed to serve their interests. Always in the public interest of course.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    remember history or relive it...

    "that the appointment of the secretary of the Attorney-General's Department as the industry's chief security officer is a step too far."

    Some older antipodean readers may remember a part of AGs Dept called D branch. So nothing new here. (For some values of "security".)

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  3. LaeMing
    Unhappy

    Sound's like a real

    dog's breakfast.

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  4. P. Lee

    Kill them with kindness

    Do the meta data thing and give customers a nice easy to use interface for it. Tell your customers that the government thinks it is important that they are able to access this information, for X years. Click here to send an email to the AG to tell him what you think of the plan.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    We really are being lead by idiots

    Well paid idiots, with over generous perks/allowances I might add.

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