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Regretting privatisation: broadband and the 2007 election
How the Panama Canal was built: A regulatory fable
Future use of unassigned television channels
Australian spectrum policy is largely characterised by a 'command and control' approach to allocation. Such a top-down approach is ill-suited to managing the implementation and diffusion of technological innovations, nowhere more so than in the...
Fashion and Foreign Aid
A realistic look at the "digital divide".
Can the future be made future-proof?
Why Can't We Use Our Mobile Phones on Planes?
The Revolution in Telecommunications
On the Trail of Burke and Wills
If there is a problem with telecommunications in the bush, then it was not obvious to this author on his recent 'Burke and Wills' trip. Indeed, that also holds for other things we take for granted in the cities.
Regulating Telecommunications: Trade Practices Overkill
The growing burden of telecommunications regulations has created delays, inequities, excessive costs and you guessed it...yet more regulation.
Telecommunications in Regional and Remote Australia
In October of this year, the Telecommunications Service Inquiry report into service levels in the bush was released. The headlines flowing from this report were primarily to do with the implications for the full privatization of Telstra. The...
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