The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is proposing to monitor and report on provision of telecommunications services to remote Indigenous communities.
The Queensland Government has advertised for an executive to head up a new office which takes a whole-of-government approach to the state's communications needs.
Australians have made more than 20,000 complaints a month against telecommunications companies this year as figures rose despite a campaign to lift customer service.
Federal communications Minister Stephen Conroy has threatened further reforms of the telecommunications industry after a massive spike in complaints from customers.
A telecommunications analyst from investment advisory service, BBY, has labelled the government's $43 billion NBN plan "as risky as it gets" and said it will fail to attract investors in the current information vacuum.
I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.
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As expected, Senator Stephen Conroy -- who made a career out of picking holes in the actions of his predecessor Helen Coonan -- was named to Kevin Rudd's front bench, bearing the interesting new title of Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (BCDE).
The dullest observation you can possibly make about information technology is that it should be designed to serve the needs of the business, rather than the technology experts.
2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.
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Is this a marriage made in heaven? The federal government and shareholders at Australia's largest carrier certainly hope so.
Optus released a new VoIP package yesterday, designed to appeal to the small to medium business market in Australia.
Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan yesterday defended Australia's national telecommunications regulatory regime.
Optus and Telstra have worked out issues around sending multi-media messages between the two networks.
The Australian Communications Authority has claimed a win for rural telecommunications following the prohibition of mobile phone boosters in May last year.
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