items tagged with Telecoms regulation
Telecom NZ unable to meet IT systems separation deadlines
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-11-19 18:22:40
Telecom New Zealand has secured an extension the deadlines for separating its IT systems, required as part of the operational separation undertakings given to the New Zealand Government.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-11-19 18:22:40
Telecom New Zealand has secured an extension the deadlines for separating its IT systems, required as part of the operational separation undertakings given to the New Zealand Government.
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Telcos unite to call for rapid passages of telecoms reform bill
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-10-24 19:03:19
Most of Australia's tier 2 carriers have bandied together to issue a joint statement calling on all members of Parliament and senators to support the passage of the telecoms reform legislation and not to delay considering it.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-10-24 19:03:19
Most of Australia's tier 2 carriers have bandied together to issue a joint statement calling on all members of Parliament and senators to support the passage of the telecoms reform legislation and not to delay considering it.
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ACCAN lobbies for "truly historic" reforms to telecoms legislation
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-11 01:13:46
ACCAN is proposing an amendment to the telecoms legislation that would be "truly historic for enhancing end-user welfare, both for consumers and business, and in so doing strengthen the development of a networked information economy."
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-11 01:13:46
ACCAN is proposing an amendment to the telecoms legislation that would be "truly historic for enhancing end-user welfare, both for consumers and business, and in so doing strengthen the development of a networked information economy."
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Telstra's competitors warn ACCC its decision will mean higher prices
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 02:48:57
The CEOs of seven of Telstra's fixed line competitors - Netspace; Macquarie Telecom; Optus; iiNet; Primus; Internode and TransACT - have written to ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel, warning that the ACCC's recently published indicative prices for fixed line services, if implemented, would lead to a significant increase in prices of services to end users.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-13 02:48:57
The CEOs of seven of Telstra's fixed line competitors - Netspace; Macquarie Telecom; Optus; iiNet; Primus; Internode and TransACT - have written to ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel, warning that the ACCC's recently published indicative prices for fixed line services, if implemented, would lead to a significant increase in prices of services to end users.
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Government publishes submissions on NBN legislative framework
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-06 05:27:36
The Australian Government has published more than 30 submissions received in response to its call for industry input on the legislative framework for the National Broadband Network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-06 05:27:36
The Australian Government has published more than 30 submissions received in response to its call for industry input on the legislative framework for the National Broadband Network.
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ACCAN targets self-regulation, broadcasting and the NBN
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-03 00:22:04
The new consumers telecommunications body, ACCAN is proposing to expand its scope to cover broadcasting and to demand legislation requiring that the government formally respond when presented with evidence of systemic failures in the telecoms and broadcasting markets. Also on the table is a proposal that it lobby for "The abandonment or reform of self-regulation to a best practice system that better delivers consumer outcomes, and is more technology neutral."
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-03 00:22:04
The new consumers telecommunications body, ACCAN is proposing to expand its scope to cover broadcasting and to demand legislation requiring that the government formally respond when presented with evidence of systemic failures in the telecoms and broadcasting markets. Also on the table is a proposal that it lobby for "The abandonment or reform of self-regulation to a best practice system that better delivers consumer outcomes, and is more technology neutral."
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Break up Telstra and force it out of Foxtel, says Optus
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-06-03 06:18:10
Optus has released its submission to the government's review of telecommunications regulation, calling for Telstra to be broken up into separate network-owning and retail service providing entities and for it to be forced to divest its 50 percent stake in Foxtel.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-06-03 06:18:10
Optus has released its submission to the government's review of telecommunications regulation, calling for Telstra to be broken up into separate network-owning and retail service providing entities and for it to be forced to divest its 50 percent stake in Foxtel.
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Pssst… wanna job? NBN is recruiting a CEO
Written By: David Heath
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-27 23:03:58
Following the incorporation of the state-owned NBN Company last week, a CEO is now required.
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Written By: David Heath
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-27 23:03:58
Following the incorporation of the state-owned NBN Company last week, a CEO is now required.
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Government foreshadows major telecoms regulation reform
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-04-06 19:50:22
The Government has foreshadowed the biggest reform of telecommunications regulation in more than a decade as part of its revised plans for the national broadband network, and has set out a series of radical proposals in a discussion paper.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-04-06 19:50:22
The Government has foreshadowed the biggest reform of telecommunications regulation in more than a decade as part of its revised plans for the national broadband network, and has set out a series of radical proposals in a discussion paper.
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The dark side of AT&T's $US17b investment plans
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-11 15:19:32
Australians may look enviously at the USA where AT&T has just announced plans to expand its FTTN/H network to 30 million homes and to offer femtocells along with a host of other upgrades, but, according to one expert a series of regulatory failures has destroyed competition and left US telecoms consumers at the mercy of megacorporates like AT&T.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-11 15:19:32
Australians may look enviously at the USA where AT&T has just announced plans to expand its FTTN/H network to 30 million homes and to offer femtocells along with a host of other upgrades, but, according to one expert a series of regulatory failures has destroyed competition and left US telecoms consumers at the mercy of megacorporates like AT&T.
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NBN will not happen but structural separation will says Gen-i boss
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-11 03:34:10
The departure of Sol Trujillo from Telstra will pave the way for structural separation of the carrier and the NBN is dead in the water says the Australian boss of Telecom NZ's giant services subsidiary Gen-i. What's more, regulation will continue to play a big role in the newly separated Telstra.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-11 03:34:10
The departure of Sol Trujillo from Telstra will pave the way for structural separation of the carrier and the NBN is dead in the water says the Australian boss of Telecom NZ's giant services subsidiary Gen-i. What's more, regulation will continue to play a big role in the newly separated Telstra.
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Call for urgent ACCC intervention to ‘stop Telstra stealing customers’ say competitors
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-03-05 03:37:07
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-03-05 03:37:07
There’s been a call for urgent action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to intervene in Telstra’s plans to reportedly forcibly disconnect competitors in a Canberra exchange.
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ACCC extends fixed service review deadline
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-24 16:27:18
Telstra has written to the ACCC requesting an extension until 10 April of the ACCC's deadline of 13 March for submissions to its Fixed Services Review discussion paper.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-24 16:27:18
Telstra has written to the ACCC requesting an extension until 10 April of the ACCC's deadline of 13 March for submissions to its Fixed Services Review discussion paper.
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How about a Communications and Content Alliance?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-11 14:44:08
Music industry veteran, Michael Smellie, addressing a Communications Alliance conference in Melbourne, says there needs to be more collaboration between different industry sectors involved in broadband, and has suggested that Communications Alliance might broaden its membership base to embrace content providers.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-11 14:44:08
Music industry veteran, Michael Smellie, addressing a Communications Alliance conference in Melbourne, says there needs to be more collaboration between different industry sectors involved in broadband, and has suggested that Communications Alliance might broaden its membership base to embrace content providers.
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ACCC to narrow scope of declared transmission service
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-11 14:41:16
The ACCC is proposing to vary the declared domestic transmission capacity service (DTCS) to exclude large number of capital-regional transmission routes and exchange service areas .
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-11 14:41:16
The ACCC is proposing to vary the declared domestic transmission capacity service (DTCS) to exclude large number of capital-regional transmission routes and exchange service areas .
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Opposition bemoans “veiled in secrecy” NBN process
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-21 21:44:12
After news came through earlier today that the NBN Expert Panel had released its report, which the Government says it will not release, the inevitable cry of complaint from the Federal Opposition has arisen, blasting Senator Conroy for the secretive process.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-21 21:44:12
After news came through earlier today that the NBN Expert Panel had released its report, which the Government says it will not release, the inevitable cry of complaint from the Federal Opposition has arisen, blasting Senator Conroy for the secretive process.
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NBN “Expert Panel” releases report – but only to the Govt
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-21 19:44:31
The Opposition’s desires to see the NBN (National Broadband Network) report released publicly seem to have been dashed by the Minister for Communication’s latest statement, which says the report has been received, but won’t be released to anyone else.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-21 19:44:31
The Opposition’s desires to see the NBN (National Broadband Network) report released publicly seem to have been dashed by the Minister for Communication’s latest statement, which says the report has been received, but won’t be released to anyone else.
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Telstra 'co-opts' Unwired's position on regulation, Unwired objects
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-01-21 01:52:15
A stoush has erupted between Telstra and Unwired after Telstra invoked an Unwired submission to the ACCC to claim that Unwired supported Telstra's push for "an overhaul of Australia's telecommunications regulatory regime."
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-01-21 01:52:15
A stoush has erupted between Telstra and Unwired after Telstra invoked an Unwired submission to the ACCC to claim that Unwired supported Telstra's push for "an overhaul of Australia's telecommunications regulatory regime."
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Coalition demands Expert Panel’s NBN report: Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-19 22:06:41
Ready to munch on the findings of the Expert Panel’s NBN report is one Senator Nick Minchin, the Shadow Minister for Broadband, who is pre-ripping into the Rudd Labor Government over the release (or otherwise) of the NBN recommendations.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-19 22:06:41
Ready to munch on the findings of the Expert Panel’s NBN report is one Senator Nick Minchin, the Shadow Minister for Broadband, who is pre-ripping into the Rudd Labor Government over the release (or otherwise) of the NBN recommendations.
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Internet filter trials delayed, P2P now included!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-24 04:02:17
Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008, Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been postponed until mid-January 2009, with peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic filtering also set to be performed. Here’s an idea – delay to trial all right – but to mid-Jan, 2099!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-24 04:02:17
Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008, Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been postponed until mid-January 2009, with peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic filtering also set to be performed. Here’s an idea – delay to trial all right – but to mid-Jan, 2099!
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