The Merger Guidelines released in March 2008 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) provide a guide to the analytical approach the ACCC intends to adopt to assessing mergers for the purposes of s.50 of the Trade Practices Act. The new Guidelines do a relatively good job in...

This article considers the significance of market definition for the regulation of telecommunications markets in Australian competition law. The legislative context for defining telecommunications markets is discussed. The economic principles which arise when defining telecommunications markets...