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News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and deceptive conduct, and says other providers could also soon be targeted.ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said television and magazine advertisements often used tiny print, busy and distracting images and ``confusing clutter'' to mislead subscribers.As a result, consumers did not appreciate the significant ongoing costs they would incur simply by texting the advertised number.``While...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and deceptive conduct, and says other providers could also soon be targeted. ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said television and magazine advertisements often used tiny print, busy and distracting images and "confusing clutter" to mislead subscribers. As a result, consumers did not appreciate the significant ongoing costs they would incur simply by texting the advertised number. "While...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... Burgess says. During his period as a Telstra executive Burgess waged war with ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel and every significant Australian media outlet. His techniques included black-banning journalists from talking to the company's executives, pulling the telecommunications giant's advertising, and trying to side-step the press altogether with a Telstra website devoted to company...
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Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... achieved? It seems to have achieved precisely nothing," Senator Coonan told the paper.While Graeme Samuel, one of Dr Burgess's favourite targets, said he would miss Mr Burgess's colourful rhetoric, especially his descriptions of both himself and the regulator.
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... Burgess says. During his period as a Telstra executive Burgess waged war with ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel and every significant Australian media outlet. His techniques included black-banning journalists from talking to the company's executives, pulling the telecommunications giant's advertising, and trying to side-step the press altogether with a Telstra website devoted to company...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... fees on farmers who elect to sell their water and terminate water delivery rights," ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said. "High termination fees prevent farmers from realising the market value of their water entitlements and deter trade in water." The ACCC paper proposes a cap on termination fees of 11 times annual access fees, falling to eight times annual access fees by 2015. The move...
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Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... to challenge National Australia Bank for the title of the country's largest lender.ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said after the acquisition, the merged firm would receive enough retail banking competition from other major banks, regional banks, credit unions, building societies, and niche players to constrain it.Mr Samuel said the watchdog acknowledged the role regional banks...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Following a three-month review, the nation's competition watchdog deemed that the merger was unlikely to substantially lessen competition,. It said that while St George was a "relatively innovative and dynamic competitor with a strong focus on customer service, other competitors to the merged entity which remain in the market will continue to play a similar role". ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... the merged entity which remain in the market will continue to play a similar role". ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said the watchdog considered that competition in retail banking markets provided by the other major banks, regionals, credit unions and other niche players "would be sufficient to constrain the merged firm after the acquisition". Westpac chief Gail Kelly yesterday welcomed...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Note to Graeme Samuel ... Don't wait for the dinner invite. Trujillo helpfully emphasised that Telstra's network reliability has only gone up, even with natural disasters such as flooding. "Unlike," he said with a dramatic sigh, "perhaps one of our competitors ... plagued with problems meeting some of its commitments." This was a clear reference to the recent Optus debacles, courtesy...
