Telstra has warned the federal government it has massively overstated the value of multibillion-dollar spectrum licences, issuing a thinly veiled threat that it would be prepared to mount a legal challenge to avoid overpaying.The telecommunications sector is on tenterhooks this week because the regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, is expected to issue a final ruling on how much to charge Telstra, Optus, TPG Telecom and NBN Co to renew licences to use the radio waves that transmit mobile phone calls, known as spectrum.
Telstra warns $7.3b spectrum cash grab could trigger legal challenge
Australia’s biggest telco issued a thinly veiled threat that it could challenge the way the government has priced the airwaves necessary for mobile phone calls.
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