LE> Austel has the power to peg Telstra's prices. Witness the fact that in
 LE> order to encourage competition, Telstra was forced to maintain price
 LE> levels above Optus's for some time (maybe even still).

So they can't monopolise the market by raising prices or lowering them
so that others can't compete?

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