It?s Time: Reimagining Universal Service for Digital Life

This article provides a brief introduction to a timely set of papers critically discussing universal service in telecommunications and proposing policy option. This is a longstanding public policy issue, moving once more into the foreground in Australia. The article puts the papers into context, and argues for the need to reconnect universal service policy with fertile and productive research, policy, social and technology innovation in other areas. Finally, the paper argues for the urgent need...

Editorial

Papers cover Universal Service, legacy telecommunications equipment the rollout of Ultra-Fast Broadband in New Zealand. How to ensure that legacy telecommunications equipment is identified, upgraded and connected to the National Broadband Network or replaced. An update on the provision of reliable telecommunications to Antarctica and how Ericsson is celebrating the milestone of being a significant contributor to Australian telecommunications over the past 125 years.

CommsWire - 25 November 2015

ACMA advises telco industry on consumer mobile spending; Nokia, Deutsche Telekom and Cosmos demo claimed LTE-A 3 CA world first; Choice: Fed Gov?t response ?backs open data ? and VPNs; Drip pricing is for drips; Dubber and MNF (MyNetFone) team up ? and other Telco comments; Economuse; Australia a perfect market for Perfecto; MapR data platform delivers efficiency gains to Macquarie Telecom.

CommsWire - 15 July 2015

Make The Nbn The Uso Provider, Says Vodafone; The Coutts Recommendations; Economuse: Mobiles And The Universal Service Obligation; The Ato Is Listening To The Sound Of Your Voice; Megaport Expanding Into The Us Market; Telstra Equity Deal Seals Partnership With Enepath; Iinet Secures Tasmanian Public Sector Contract.

CommsWire daily news - 1 June 2015

Spectrum sale going ahead ? but with limits to safeguard competition; NewSat may yet be back in orbit as turnaround efforts continue; Visionstream terminates 100 Tasmanian NBN fibre workers; Telcos, vendors to benefit from rise in non-smartphone device sales; ECONOMUSE: A shaky start for USO levy study.