Phone users have a reason to cheer ACCC's black eye

This article makes a very interesting point that I hadn't heard before. When the Australian government banned Huawei equipment from phone networks, it shut down the only serious proposal to build a new network, handing a lot of Australia's money to the oligopoly that owns the three existing ones.

It would be really interesting to know how much of that money was donated back to the political party that banned Huawei.

(I've used the title from the paywalled newspaper column. The link is to the author's blog, where the title has a typo that reverses its meaning.)