The merger of industry regulators, the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) and the Australian Communications Authority (ACA), will be first on the agenda should Helen Coonan be reassigned to the communications and information technology portfolio, her spokeswoman said today.
With the future structure of Australia's telecommunications industry still up in the air, both sides of politics have attempted to score points over the latest report on the state of services.
The federal government has sought to claim credit for a rise in telecommunications performance during the December 2003 quarter, claiming the performance shows its industry measures "are working effectively".
A Victorian Supreme Court has ordered Telstra and Optus not to interfer in a legal stoush which broke out after Hutchison built a 3G antenna on a residential tower controlled by the state's Director of Housing.
A mobile telecoms industry body has denied the need for SMS standards, called for by the Shadow Minister for Communications Lindsay Tanner.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
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