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The ACMA is very enthusiastic about the review, and about contributing our experience and expertise. The Convergence Committee will be reporting early in 2012, so the ACMA will be sharing its research and observations with the committee.
The ACMA’s current responsibilities cover over 30 acts and several hundred pieces of secondary legislation. They all have [...]
Continue Reading →A quick audit of families and friends highlights the diverse way we use communications and digital media. Some of us are ahead of the pack in the breadth and intensity of use, and others are lagging behind.
The emphasis that the ACMA places on Australians having the skills and confidence to take advantage of digital [...]
Continue Reading →The digital world and convergence is embedded in the lives of Australians—as we’ve seen in the ACMA’s public inquiry into customer care and complaints-handling in telecommunications, under the broader banner of our Reconnecting the Customer initiative.
The ACMA is absolutely focused on the consumer in this strategy, which was developed to address both the [...]
Continue Reading →The ACMA’s experience with mobile premium services includes useful lessons about the way markets are changing and crossing industry boundaries. There are now supply chains involving players who are not recognised in the ACMA’s legislation and messy contractual situations, with privacy and responsibility under the microscope.
A mobile application itself can be seen as a [...]
Continue Reading →When the last major review of numbering arrangements took place about 30 years ago, few people could have anticipated the scope or scale of innovation in technology, nor the consequent changes in consumer behaviour.
In 2011, we accept as normal the capacity to access critical information wherever we are. Using mobile phones to make calls [...]
Continue Reading →The ACMA has been working closely with industry and affected parties on the configuration and auction of the 700 MHz ‘digital dividend’ spectrum and the 2.5 GHz band. While currently mainly used for electronic newsgathering, parts of the 2.5 GHz block will almost certainly be used for future wireless and Long-Term Evolution services.
Convergence also [...]
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As a result of extensive study the ACMA estimates that up to 300 MHz of additional spectrum will be required to meet the future requirements of mobile broadband services by the year 2020.
In 2007, the requirements of mobile broadband services were able to be met by 380 MHz of spectrum (primary made up of [...]
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