extensive coverage definition
extensive coverage means in this context, but if the ACCC means that a failure to match Telstra will not lead to Optus or VHA exiting the Australian mobile market, then the ACCC is addressing a claim which nobody has made, so far as I am aware. VHA and Optus could of course continue to compete for consumers who do not value coverage and I would expect those consumers will continue to be well served by the competitive process. However, the question at issue in this enquiry is a different one: whether VHA and Optus can compete for consumers who do value coverage and whether, if they cannot, those customers will end up paying higher prices to Telstra than they otherwise would if declaration were made. Despite my efforts to explain the analytical framework (on which I think both Professor Yarrow and I agreed) in my earlier reports28, the ACCC fails to address the correct question in its discussion of coverage as a basis for competition in the draft decision.