Separation good news for resellers.
The separation of Telstra’s wholesale business from retail means a fair go and a positive future for the reseller market according to Telecommunications resellers.
In a separated environment, Telstra Wholesale should be in a position to offer its resale customers the full range of Telstra retail services at a fair price.
It is felt that Telstra Wholesale has been limited for far too long by only being able to offer its resale customers a limited suite of ‘Value Added Service’ products at full retail rates leaving the small telco service providers who service the business community little room to make a margin.
Under the current model resellers are required to wear the costs of acquisition, service set up, support and billing for these services. Despite this, resellers are not in a position to provide the products and services at the same retail price while at the same time make a fair margin.
It is predicted that services and products such as line hunt, fax duet, calling number display and calls to 13 and 1300 numbers should now be accessible to resellers with a fair margin under the rules of separation. It may also be that Telstra Wholesale would be in a better position to resell the Next G mobile services to their wholesale customers, which they currently cannot do.
See also: Australia – Competition and Regulation Issues – 2008-2009
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