Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has named the first six ISPs that will take part in the Government's trial of ISP side content filtering, and only one of them comes from the top ten.
The first six are: Primus, Tech 2U, Webshield,
OMNIconnect, Netforce and Highway 1. Their customers will be able to
choose whether they want to be included in the pilot trial, but all
Webshield customers already receive a filtered service.
Consultations continue with a number of other ISPs that have applied to
take part in the trials, Conroy said. Shadow minister, Nick Minchin,
said: "it is extremely puzzling why two of the nation's three largest
ISPs, Optus and iiNet, have not been included in the first phase of
these trials, despite expressing a willingness to participate...[and]
Australia's largest ISP
Telstra BigPond has refused to participate. Without the 'big three'. IT
is difficult to see how these trials could be in any way credible."
Conroy said that testing with each ISP would take place for a minimum
six weeks once filtering equipment had been obtained and installed.
"It will look at the efficiency and effectiveness of a range of
technical solutions, as well as other issues such as the ease of
circumvention, impact on internet speeds and user experience."
ISPs were invited to put forward proposals to participate in two pilot
streams: filtering the ACMA blacklist of prohibited URLs and filtering
the ACMA blacklist of prohibited URLs, as well as additional content
filtering solutions that may be offered as optional services by ISPs.
Minchin called on the minister to commit to the independent auditing of
any results, adding: "the minister also needs to explain what his
measures of success will be for these trials and outline how they will
be conducted and what filtering technologies will be utilised."
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