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News and features tagged with 'regulation'
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 7 August 2008
Instead of trying to come up with the "right" industry structure for telecommunications, regulators should step back and allow competition to drive investment.... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 31 July 2008
Regulatory experts Professor George Yarrow and Dr Mark Jamison discuss how regulation could and should work to promote investment in new infrastructure... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 24 July 2008
Regulation in Australia is like “liposuction”, sucking the value out of broadband investment, Telstra's Dr Tony Warren told delegates today at the Broadband... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 June 2008
Telstra today lodged its submissions to the Government's National Broadband Network (NBN) regulatory review, outlining the policy changes that would be... More
Posted by Rhonda Griffin - Public Affairs Manager, Regulatory and Legal, 25 June 2008
Our competitors in the bid to build a high-speed broadband network for all Australians are becoming experts in distortion, distraction and dishonesty when... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 19 June 2008
In a case of sheer hypocrisy, while Singtel Optus is mounting a relentless campaign to structurally separate Telstra, its parent company SingTel is telling... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 21 May 2008
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo delivered a keynote presentation at the TM Forum’s Management World 2008, where he discussed the key elements of Telstra's end-to-end... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 May 2008
Speeches and reports from Sol Trujillo Telstra CEO and Telstra executives. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 30 April 2008
The ACCC has issued a draft decision to grant Telstra an exemption from regulation of two wholesale services in 229 metropolitan exchanges. Executive Director... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 30 April 2008
From yesterday’s landmark ACCC decision on wholesale line rental and local call resale regulatory exemptions, Grahame Lynch argues the onus is now on these... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 22 April 2008
Find out more about the recent CommsDay Summit "Get ready for the Gigabit Age" - presented by Communications Day, a leading source of telecom news, opinion... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 19 December 2007
Speeches and reports about the Telecoms industry regulation in Australia. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 3 December 2007
A small country town 500km north of Sydney may have a funny name, but it illustrates an important argument about fairness. It can cost Telstra $30,000... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 23 November 2007
This week the Telstra Foundation announced it would provide $1 million to create a safe online community for Australian primary school children to communicate... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 23 November 2007
“In September we asked our shareholders for their thoughts and the feedback was overwhelming. More than 35,000 shareholders responded to our survey,... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 9 November 2007
Telstra's Dr Phil Burgess doesn't spare the horses in his Melbourne Cup Day address to a Telstra senior executive CEO Forum. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 2 October 2007
Value destroying public policy and regulatory decisions have been a reality for Telstra for many years, and did not come about suddenly since 2005. What... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 10 July 2007
Telstra has applied for the removal of regulation from key wholesale services in metropolitan and major regional areas where competitive markets are flourishing. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 4 July 2007
The ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel this week admitted he'd been sidelined by the Government that appointed him to the job as Australia's chief competition... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 June 2007
As senior bureaucrats at the ACCC packed their bags for their Christmas holidays, they quietly slipped out a key Telstra network pricing decision that... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 May 2007
The Competition Tribunal’s refusal of Telstra’s appeal against de-averaged pricing of unbundled local loop is not as clear-cut as the headlines suggest.... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 16 April 2007
Ovum Research Director David Kennedy says the decade-old telco regulations need updating. Ten years have now passed since the passage of the 1997 reforms,... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 29 March 2007
Alan Moran says businesses and consumers are paying the price for regulations out of control. Businesses constantly experience frustrations with government... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 12 February 2007
Taking a line out the SingTel Optus propaganda manual, Graeme Samuel has taken to referring to Telstra as a "monopolist". The ACCC chairman used the line... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 December 2006
A lot has changed since 1997. There's more competition, lower prices, hundreds of new carriers and ISPs, the broadband revolution, 3G mobiles - these are... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 8 December 2006
Telstra's second broadband plan, "Plan B", would have initially guaranteed faster speeds to up to four million homes. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 10 November 2006
Learn more about the regulations that are holding back investment in fixed broadband networks and high-speed broadband services. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
Our industry is no stranger to change. If policy and regulation cannot keep up we shall lag behind other countries and forfeit some of the benefits that... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 October 2006
The ACCC’s rejection of Telstra’s ULL undertaking was expected and is both wrong and short-sighted. Only clearer government direction can make amends.... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 9 October 2006
The Federal Government has issued its prospectus for T3, with potential investors warned regulation is the most serious threat they will face. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 18 September 2006
The Government has imposed further regulation on Telstra, and Telstra alone. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 7 September 2006
New evidence show's Australia's 'stepping stone' telco policy can't deliver and is doing more harm than good. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 12 July 2006
Outlines Telstra's 5-point plan to reduce over-regulation of the telecommunications industry. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 22 June 2006
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is refusing to back away from its position that Telstra still needs to be treated as a monopoly... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 9 June 2006
In a week when Communications Minister Helen Coonan announced even more regulations on Telstra that don't apply to competitors, we found out what happens... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 24 May 2006
For the second time this year nowwearetalking has been the subject of questions by Senators in a Parliamentary Committee. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 25 November 2005
Reports about regulation in Australia. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 15 November 2005
Different economic and accounting approaches, or “costing models”, lead to very different results, which can be very confusing to the consumer, the shareholder... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 November 2005
Reports and papers about regulation and new technologies. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 4 October 2005
Telecommunications companies are not the only ones who are starting to ask questions about the growing burden of red tape on companies large and small.... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 3 October 2005
Before we get too carried away, we’d like to dispel a few myths and set the record straight about Telstra's position on regulation. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 3 October 2005
Of course, not all regulation is bad. Like most companies, Telstra accepts it is the right and obligation of Governments to make decisions about public... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 3 October 2005
For most people, regulation is a boring topic. That’s because regulation is boring – boring to write, boring to implement, and pretty boring to discuss. More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 27 September 2005
What does regulation really cost? Our “regulatory scorecard” summarises many direct and hidden costs of regulation to Telstra, the communications industry,... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 1 January 2004
Reports about International studies of unbundling and deregulation. More
Blog entries tagged with 'regulation'
Posted by Rhonda Griffin, 25 July 2008
Blogger Rhonda Griffin argues the ACCC does so much more than simply “umpire”. As the ACCC becomes embroiled in policy, politics and PR, it has moved from... More
Posted by Rod Bruem, 9 May 2008
Blogger Rod Bruem says it is easy to see why Telstra's competitors would like to see the regulators focus more on the structural seperation of Telstra... More
Posted by Rhonda Griffin, 18 April 2008
Rhonda Griffin talks about Hugh Mackay's address at the recent Australian Foreign Press Association lunch where he argued Australians have fallen in love... More
Posted by Dr Hugh Bradlow, 22 February 2008
In the second part of “The Technology Laws of Telecommunications Economics” blog series, Hugh Bradlow takes a look why telecommunications should not be... More
Posted by Rhonda Griffin, 15 June 2007
Blogger Rhonda Griffin comments on Telstra's recent advertising campaign which exposes the G9's nasty little secrets. More
Discussions tagged with 'regulation'
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 20 March 2006
nowwearetalking discussion forum focused on broadband and regulation. Should the Australian Government be doing more to remove regulations that are preventing... More
Posted by nowwearetalking editor, 4 November 2005
Archived discussion forum exploring the issue of industry regulation: Are telecommunications regulations benefiting consumers or working against them?... More
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