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ACCANect 2018 early bird tickets closing;
Check out ACCAN's latest submissions;
Teens racking up thousands in telco debt;
NBN customers inadvertently paying to upgrade their neighbours connections; and
much more...
Early bird tickets close this Friday, 17th August. Now is the time to book your tickets for our national conference: Confidence in the Connected World.
We currently have three positions available at ACCAN: Project officer, Disability Policy Officer, and Marketing and Publications Assistant. Check out the position descriptions on our website.
ACCAN’s submission to the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code review focused on the need to improve consumer protection by strengthening the requirements on providers in a range of key areas.
ACCAN has provided a submission to the Regional Telecommunications Review. The Review is conducted every three years and is an important forum for examining telecommunications issues and equity of services in regional, rural and remote Australia. Check out our submission.
The ACMA have added three short videos to their Telco tips series, to help Aussies identify what may be causing their slow internet, and provide simple tips on fixing it. [ACMA]
Hundreds of Australian teenagers are racking up expenses online without their parents' permission, in some cases leaving families on the hook for bills worth thousands of dollars, a new survey has found. [abc news]
A third of Australians connected to the national broadband network (NBN) are now on 50Mbps speed plans after their dramatic price reduction made budget-priced, lower-speed options less attractive for households. [smh]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a discussion paper proposing to take over the collection of Internet activity data, a task which the Australian Bureau of Statistics said that it would be stopping. [itWire]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says that its latest report based on wholesale market data provided by NBN Co shows positive signs for competition. [Computer World]
National Broadband Network users who choose to pay thousands of dollars out of their own pocket for a high-speed internet connection are inadvertently paying to upgrade their neighbours' connections as well as public infrastructure, the ABC has learned. [abc news]
The Australian government is still committed to 'no backdoors', publishing draft legislation that will force internet companies to assist law enforcement in decrypting messages sent with end-to-end encryption. [ZDNet}
The communications regulator is getting ready to launch a program that will test the capabilities of VDSL2 modems intended for use with NBN FTTN and FTTB connections. [Computer World]
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The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network's representation of residential and other consumers' interests in relation to telecommunications issues is made possible by funding provided by the Commonwealth of Australia under section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997. This funding is recovered from charges on telecommunications carriers.
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