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TELSTRA'S ability to block competitors from installing their own broadband equipment in Telstra telephone exchanges has been curtailed by a new policy from the competition regulator.

TELCOS wanting to supply fixed-line telephone services in metropolitan areas will probably be stripped of the right to piggyback Telstra's copper-wire network, in a bid to force them to install their own equipment.

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TELSTRA'S phone and internet repair and installation workers in NSW will meet on Wednesday to decide whether to join their counterparts in other states in a strike and blockade of the company's Melbourne headquarters to protest over pay levels.