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  • Coonan's PC porn filter six months late

    Australians are not likely to get government-provided free online content filters for their PCs until June this year at the earliest, some six months after initially stipulated.

  • Govt reassures bush on Telstra 3G coverage

    The federal communications minister has reassured rural Australia her department plans to work with Telstra and the communications regulator to ensure the bush won't be disadvantaged as the telco dumps its existing CDMA network in favour of a new national 3G mobile offering.

  • ACMA's Telstra 3G audit favours eastern states

    Australia's communications regulator will carry out its testing overwhelmingly in the populous eastern states, particularly New South Wales, as it judges whether Telstra's new national 3G mobile network provides equal coverage to the previous CDMA one.

  • Feds expect massive rush on Do Not Call register

    Federal parliament has passed legislation to create a national Do Not Call Register and the government expects the community to sign up one million individual numbers to avoid unsolicited telemarketing calls within the first week of its operation.

  • Chapman appointed first ACMA chief

    Seven months after its inception, the nation's merged communications and broadcasting regulator finally has a chairman and chief executive in the form of Chris Chapman.

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