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Introduction Large distances and low population densities continue to make the delivery of telecommunications services to much of remote and regional Australia both challenging and costlyi. Thus in many cases government subsidies play an essential role in the provision and operation of services. In regard to cellular mobile services, a policy commitment of $100m for regional and remote cellular...
November 2013
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Introduction The design and rollout of a comprehensive fibre optic National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has initiated a great deal of discussion regarding innovation in both media technology and content provision. Recent developments in the testing and pricing of wholesale multicast services by NBN Co. poses the possibility that, amongst other changes to Australia?s media landscape,...
November 2013
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Introduction Journalists and news publishers have spent the past 15 years chasing audiences down rabbit holes. Where once audiences were to be found in clearly defined groups and locations, disruptive technologies ? most recently, mobile devices and applications ? have been viewed as splintering these audiences into smaller and smaller groups (Thorn 2009, 431), disappearing down narrower and...
November 2013
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Introduction At the end of 2013, there will be almost as many mobile-cellular subscriptions as there are people on earth (6.8 and 7.1 billion respectively), and global mobile-cellular penetration will approach 100%, mainly driven by the Asia and Pacific region, with more than half of the subscriptions (ITU 2013). The growth of cell phones over the past decade has no precedent if compared to any...
November 2013
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Introduction and Background In 2013 the world has become a fundamentally digitally mediated place. Here in Australia, like other parts of the developed and developing world, technology has become irrevocably embedded in the very fabric of society. For many people life without a mobile phone or access to the Internet is unthinkable and perhaps unimaginable. It is true that a range of Australian...
November 2013
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Introduction The following sections of the paper discuss: How NBN wholesale prices flow through to retail broadband prices Some benchmarks for what is ?affordable? Simpler wholesale pricing that will encourage both adoption and use of the NBN The role of mobile broadband Australian customers? needs ? some scenarios The Mark-up To discuss the NBN and affordability, we need a link...
November 2013
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Introduction The Australian National Broadband Network (NBN) (Australian Government 2013) is a vital nation building project that has been plagued by ongoing criticism of the network design, cost blow-out claims and ongoing construction delays in its optical fibre rollout. Despite its grand ambitions, NBN Co has managed to connect far fewer premises to the NBN by optical fibre than originally...
November 2013
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1. Introduction Barely a day goes by without encountering passionate views about the role of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Australia's broadband future. The fervour with which some folk have embraced fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as their new religion is reminiscent of that exhibited by enthusiasts of the early Apple Macintosh computers ? lugging them around in backpacks, preaching...
November 2013
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If a poll were conducted into the innovation considered to be Australia's most significant, the black box flight recorder invented by Australian David Warren in the 1950s might win it. This piece of equipment, which records the voices and instrument readings in the cockpit of an aircraft provides crucial aviation evidence for reconstruction. Yet not a single black box flight recorder has ever...
November 2013
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Emerging technologies continue to disrupt the traditional architectures within the access, aggregation and service edge network domains. The increased reach of MPLS enables new methods to converge and consolidate the traditional network silos. Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) raise fresh questions over where subscriber attachment, service delivery and...
26th November 2013