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Featured, Opinion - Wednesday, September 7, 2011 14:00 - 46 Comments
Australia desperately needs stable telco policy
opinion If there is one thing Australia desperately needs right now, it is for our elected representatives to stop making dramatic changes to our national telecommunications policy every few years and to come together around a set of universally agreed projects. The alternative is another half-decade worth of pointless wasted effort and industry chaos.
In this morning’s issue of industry newsletter Communications Day, seasoned telecommunications commentator Grahame Lynch raises a very frightening prospect for an industry which has just experienced half a decade worth of constantly changing telecommunications policy: More dramatic regulatory change.
Australia’s telcos and ISPs, Lynch points out, have over the current Labor Federal Government’s two terms, “totally re-aligned” themselves around the political priorities of a single man: Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.








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