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Telstra ordered to pay costs after telco loses payphone fight – The Age
The tech giant has been embroiled in a long-running fight against the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over plans to instal 1800 new payphones featuring…
Telstra argued the new payphones were “low-impact” because they were not used to display commercial advertising “at the time of their installation”, and planning approval would be required for them to do so.
But the councils argued the payphones were not “low impact” because they would carry third-party advertising, and should therefore be subject to the usual council planning approval process.
In March, Federal Court Justice David O’Callaghan ruled Telstra’s new payphone cabinets with 75-inch LCD…
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