Watchdog snaps at Telstra’s fees (The Age / Lisa Murray)

The ACCC has considered the $90 connection & disconnection fee Telstra charges on its Line Sharing Service (LSS) is “not reasonable”. Telstra are apparently calculating the charge on the basis that they have to send a technician out to the exchange to perform only this one specific task. The ACCC argues that technicians visit exchanges frequently to perform other tasks and could do the LSS work at the same time. I agree with the ACCC on this one - it’s not appropriate for other telcos to pay Telstra extra for inefficiencies in their business, false or otherwise.