Assessing Australia's progress towards a National Digital Communications Strategy

TelSoc has advocated for a long-term bipartisan strategic framework to best ensure that all Australians are able to make effective use of world-class broadband services. TelSoc has committed to monitor and facilitate progress towards achieving such a strategy and to reporting on the nature and extent of the progress regularly.   TelSoc has considered how best to describe the strategy that it...

David Piltz is awarded the 2022 Charles Todd Medal

   On 21 October, as part of TelSoc’s 2022 Charles Todd Oration event in Sydney, David Piltz was awarded this year’s Charles Todd Medal for his outstanding contribution to celebrating the telecommunications history, through protecting and celebrating its valuable historical assets. This blog provides the short speech made by the author, in awarding the medal on behalf of the TelSoc Board, and...

Regional Telecommunications Review

The Regional Telecommunications Review is required by legislation to be conducted every three years.  TelSoc prepared a submission to the 2021 review and it was submitted on 28 September 2021.  The full submission may be found on the Review website (on the RTIRC21 Have Your Say page) and a copy is attached here as a PDF In our submission we emphasised the following: Longer term Continuity: The...

TelSoc's submission to the Digital Technology Taskforce on the Digital Economy Strategy

The Digital Economy Strategy was launched by the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy in May 2021 in association with the Commonwealth Budget process.  TelSoc welcomed the Digital Economy Strategy as a step forward in the process of developing a strategic framework around broadband development. In August 2021 TelSoc made a submission to the Digital Technology...

Submission to Minister Fletcher on Affordability

The Chairman of TelSoc sent the following email in August 2021 to the Minister, with the attachment text that is shown below. Dear Minister Fletcher, TelSoc has been working on various aspects of broadband and the digital economy for the past two years.  One of the key sets of issues that we have been seeking to better understand and to analyse over that time relate to inclusion and affordability...

Charles Todd Medal awarded to Paul Cross

One of the many casualties of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic was the cancellation of TelSoc’s Charles Todd Oration in late 2020, a national industry event at which the annual Charles Todd Medal is traditionally awarded. The medal will be (physically) awarded as soon as possible in 2021. TelSoc has great pleasure in announcing that the 2020 Charles Todd Medal has been awarded to Paul Cross, the...

Mark Gregory – Life Membership

Dr Mark Gregory has been appointed a Life Member of TelSoc for his services to the Society as Managing Editor of the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy. Dr Gregory volunteered as Managing Editor for six years, 2015-2020, during which he published 6 volumes, 24 issues, and a total of 201 articles. Mark Gregory took on the role of Managing Editor after the journal had been...

Life Membership awarded to Reg Coutts

At its meeting on 5 November 2020 the Board of TelSoc awarded Life Membership of the Society to its immediate past President, Professor Reg Coutts. The award is for outstanding service to the Society.  Reg was President from 2006 until this year, and remains an active participant in TelSoc affairs and ongoing member of the Board as Vice President. Reg presided over the Board for a long time.  He...

Towards a National Broadband Strategy for Australia 2020-2030

The NBN Futures Group launched their first major report "Towards a National Broadband Strategy 2020-2030" on the 24th of November 2020. The TelSoc event webpage contains links to the presentation: https://telsoc.org/event/nbn-futures-forum-national-broadband-strategy-australia   The report is available as a PDF download: towards_a_national_broadband_strategy_2020_-_2030_24nov2020.pdf A statement...

The Future of Hybrid Fibre Coaxial Cable Network Technology

Has anyone received a Zoom link for this event?