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Several presentations from the recent ‘Tuning in to kids TV’ forum, the second event in our Citizen conversations series—are now available, along with a summary report (Word 736Kb, PDF 297 Kb) of proceedings.
The half-day forum featured presentations from humorist and children’s author Wendy Harmer, industry stakeholders, child development experts, researchers and [...]
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Australia’s mobile numbers could run out as early as 2017. In preparation for this, the ACMA is proposing to introduce a new mobile number range beginning with ‘05’.
These ‘05’ numbers will work in exactly the same way that the current numbers do, and the change won’t affect people whose number already starts with ‘04’.
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The ACMA’s Telecommunications (fixed-line) performance bulletin 2010–11 (the bulletin) provides commentary and analysis on fixed-line telecommunications performance data, as reported to the ACMA by Telstra, Optus, AAPT, iiNet and Primus. The bulletin covers four key regulatory programs—the Customer Service Guarantee, priority assistance, payphones and the Network Reliability Framework. Click here to access the bulletin.
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Accessing mobile applications is becoming increasingly popular for Australians, with 3.9 million people aged 14 years and over going online via their mobile in June 2011 alone.
The ACMA’s Emerging mobile telecommunications service market in Australia report (word) and (pdf), reveals that in April 2011, 37 per cent of mobile phone [...]
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The total number of mobile services in operation in Australia reached 29.28 million at June 2011—a 13 per cent increase since June 2010, the ACMA’s Communications Report 2010-11, reveals. The continued surge in the number of mobile wireless broadband services like dongles, datacards or USB modems connected to a computer are responsible for [...]
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Converging communications channels: preferences and behaviours of Australian communications users is the second research report released by the ACMA to complement its statutory Communications Report 2010-11. The report provides an update on key trends relating to household consumer communications preferences, in an environment of expanding digital infrastructure and new service offerings.
Some key trends identified in Australian [...]
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A new ACMA report has found that there are continuing community concerns about food and beverage advertising to children. The report also highlights that it is still unclear if there has been any significant reduction in the level of children’s exposure to food and beverage advertising on free-to-air television since the introduction of the industry [...]
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Developments in next generation applications and services (word) and (pdf) is the fourth in a series of reports to examine the pressures of technology changes and developments on current regulatory arrangements. It also provides insight into how a new wave of innovative applications and services is changing the way we interact [...]
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The ACMA has released its medium to long term vision for telephone numbering arrangements in Australia in its Telephone Numbering: Future Directions (word) and (pdf) paper. The ACMA developed four principles to guide the continuing evolution of numbering regulation:
- efficiency, so that it leads to the continued supply [...] Continue Reading →
The ACMA has released Enduring Concepts: Communications and media in Australia (word) and (pdf). This is a research paper that examines the concepts that are of ongoing importance to media and communications in Australia. It is a companion piece to the Broken Concepts paper, released in August 2011.
The paper considers the [...]
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