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  • Alston defends his commitment to telco sector

    The Department of Communication Information Technology and the Arts has moved to defend Senator Richard Alston's commitment to rural communications, after it was announced he would not be attending a national conference on rural and regional communications.

  • ISPs unprepared for ending of rural subsidies

    Regional ISPs should have been better prepared for the demise of the Broadband Connect subscriber subsidy program.

  • ICT's contribution to Australia to be unveiled

    The federal government is expected to detail the anticipated contribution of information and communications technology (ICT) to the nation's productivity over the next two decades in a report due for release tomorrow.

  • AU$600m Broadband Connect result soon

    The federal government expects to soon announce how it will allocate the AU$600 million in funding it has put on the table for bush broadband infrastructure projects.

  • VoIP industry seeks self-regulation

    Key telecommunications industry groups are frustrated with the federal government's failure to set guidelines for the fledgling Voice over Internet Protocol industry and have resorted to taking matters into their own hands.

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  • VoIP no big deal on policy front

    The federal government today confirmed plans to make only minor tweaks to telecomms regulations to accommodate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and forecast only low mass-market takeup of the next-generation telephony technology for the next two-three years.

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