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This week
IN THE NEWS: ACCAN 2022 CommsDay Congress Speech, ACCAN Comments on the Communications Alliance Reducing Scam Calls and SCAM SMS Industry Code, and more.
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On Tuesday, ACCAN Acting CEO Andrew Williams spoke at the CommsDay Congress about the 2021 Regional Telecommunications Review and the need for a fairer telco market. Read the full speech here.
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ACCAN welcomes the revision of Communication Alliance’s Reducing Scam Calls and Scam SMs Industry Code. The code outlines procedures to reduce the number of scam calls and short messages (SMs) delivered to Australian telecommunications consumers. Scam calls and short messages are annoying at best and harmful at worst and ACCAN approves of measures that limit their spread [ACCAN].
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Are you a small business owner with website-building experience? You are invited to take part in ACCAN’s Small Business’ Experience of Cybersecurity survey, which investigates cybersecurity practices of small businesses. This survey will help us to determine preferred methods of content delivery for an upcoming consumer education initiative targeting Australian small businesses. This project is funded by auDA Foundation, the administrator of Australia’s top-level domain [ACCAN].
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A Northern Rivers MP wants an inquiry into the handling of emergency triple zero phone calls during the NSW floods. An estimated 20 communities were in complete communication isolation for days, unable to call for help or supplies. Australia's peak telecommunications advocacy group says emergency satellite services are needed in evacuation centres [ABC].
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5G is coming to more places in Australia, and folks in the country’s Deep South can now jump on, provided they have one of a handful of phones. “We’ve been working incredibly hard to be able to bring 5G to Tasmania and today’s announcement is the first step towards achieving this,” said Lambo Kanagaratnam, Vice President of Networks at Optus [Pickr].
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The set of rules meant to govern the way NBN Co operates until 2040 “hasn’t operated in the way the ACCC and industry intended” and needed more than a simple “tidy-up” to fix, ACCC commissioner Anna Brakey said [iTNews].
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The federal Opposition has backed growing calls from industry for a Council of Technology Regulators to be established to address the “ad hoc” nature of tech policy development in Australia. In additional comments to a report on online safety released this week, shadow assistant minister for cybersecurity Tim Watts and Labor MP Sharon Claydon said a lack of coordination on technology policy was “undermining the effectiveness of regulation and creating real cost” [Innovation Aus].
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NBN fixed wireless download speeds have improved significantly over the past year, the ACCC’s latest Measuring Broadband Australia quarterly report shows. Speeds in December 2021 were 93.4 per cent of plan speed during all hours and 79.8 per cent of plan speed during the busy hours of 7-11pm [ACCC].
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You are invited to take part in this research project targeting Australian small retail businesses. This project investigates how Australian small retail businesses can enhance their digital adaptability by working with Australian Telco providers. It will identify to what extent small businesses are using advanced digital services (e-commerce solutions, transaction process systems, online platforms, cyber security services, etc) that Australian Telcos offer. This project is funded by Australian Communications Consumer Action Network [RMIT University].
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Digital rights groups have blasted Facebook’s latest commitment to clean up the federal election as a “bandaid” measure framed in a way to avoid more scrutiny of the company’s fundamental misinformation issues. Facebook parent company Meta on Tuesday announced plans to increase third-party fact checkers and public awareness as part of its most “comprehensive” Australian election protections [Innovation Aus].
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