Telecommunications regulation


Crikey Clarifier: What on earth is structural separation?

Til now, Telstra has exploited its monopoly as the buyer and seller of wholesale services to gouge the public and its struggling rivals. So the government’s forcing it to “structurally separate”. But what does this mean?

Proposed intercept laws could create thousands of “Little Brothers”

Proposed amendments to the Telecommunications Act could dramatically increase the monitoring of your electronic communications. What will the loss of privacy mean?

Broadband: another telco monopoly would be a disaster

If the Expert Taskforce into broadband infrastructure was supposed to delay scrutiny of the government’s broadband policy until after the election, then it isn’t working, writes Chris Berg.