12 December 2011: Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has announced: “I have opened a formal investigation into the Telstra data breach. At a briefing today Telstra has assured our office that the immediate problem has been rectified and that personal data is no longer accessible. I have asked that Telstra also provide me with a […] Read more »
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ACCC draft final access determination for regulated transmission services
9 December 2011: The ACCC has issued a draft final access determination (FAD) for the declared domestic transmission capacity service (DTCS). The price terms of the draft FAD are based on a domestic benchmarking approach using a linear regression model. The model uses prices on competitive routes to predict the prices that would be expected […] Read more »
ACCC receives revised structural separation undertaking from Telstra
9 December 2011: The ACCC has received a revised structural separation undertaking from Telstra. The ACCC is now giving urgent consideration to initiating a public inquiry into declaration of wholesale ADSL under Part XIC of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. In addition, the ACCC will shortly be finalising its inquiry into varying the exemption […] Read more »
Converging communications channels
8 December 2011: The Converging Communications Channels research released by the ACMA suggests that Australians continue to embrace multiple communication technologies, with the mobile phone, the rise of the smartphone and internet-based communications complementing traditional fixed-line telephony. According to the report, in the six months to April 2011, 84 percent of adults in fixed-line telephone […] Read more »
2012: The Year of UN Regulation of the Internet?
December 8 2011: FTC Commissioner Robert McDowell has outlined what 2012 holds as far as regulation of the internet on an international level and within the United States. In particular he asks whether 2012 will be the year of UN Regulation of the internet. Full story here. Read more »
Applications for NBN-Enabled Education and Skills Services program
1 December 2011: Innovative online and interactive education and training packages will be developed for a nationwide rollout to schools and vocational training providers under the $27.2 million NBN-Enabled Education and Skills Services program. The Government today called for proposals for the project, with organisations encouraged to develop ideas or trial projects that can be […] Read more »
Broadband network provides in-home healthcare
29 November 2011: The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Warren Snowdon, and the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, have announced an $8 million trial which will enable chronically ill veterans access in-home healthcare, to have their health monitored by health professionals without leaving their home. Full story here. Read more »
New facilities demonstrate the NBN’s potential
25 November 2011: The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has launched new NBN operation and demonstration facilities in Melbourne, intended to show the NBN’s potential. The new NBN Discovery Centre and the NBN Co Truck will provide an opportunity for consumers to learn about the NBN. The National Operations […] Read more »