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Communications in Australia and the ACMA/ITU International Training Program

Communications in Australia and the ACMA/ITU International Training Program. Lyn Maddock Deputy Chair Monday 4 September 2006. Change. Australia’s communications environment is changing Convergence accelerating How will we respond? 15 years of communication in Australia. ACMA’s role.

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Communications in Australia and the ACMA/ITU International Training Program

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  1. Communications in Australia and the ACMA/ITUInternational Training Program Lyn Maddock Deputy Chair Monday 4 September 2006

  2. Change • Australia’s communications environment is changing • Convergence accelerating • How will we respond? • 15 years of communication in Australia

  3. ACMA’s role Compliance with the legislation • Managing the trade-offs • Outcome oriented • Encouraging efficiency • Allowing innovation • Fairness • Consistency Managing uncertainty • Technological change • Globalisation

  4. Thank you • Enjoy your stay with ACMA

  5. Regulatory tools • Codes • Industry guidelines • Consumer information and education • Transparent decision making • Trials of new technology

  6. Overall approach • Industry responsibility as a core principle • Transparency as a regulatory tool

  7. Our functions • Services to industry to help them to operate efficiently • Monitoring and regulating of industry outputs – to ensure social objectives are met

  8. Industry responsibility • Adaptable / copes with change • Matched to industry processes • Copes with complexity

  9. Industry transparency • General and particular interventions • Our accountability • Industry’s understanding

  10. ACMA’s approach to emerging issues • Research on new technologies and community attitudes • Consumer education and information resources • Early involvement • Testing range of regulatory powers

  11. ACMA is looking forward Market environment • Continuing convergence • Dynamic, unpredictable & varied • Lowering of entry barriers • ‘Smaller’ players without resources for government relations Policy considerations • Competition • Continuing evolution of content regulation • Understanding policy ‘costs’ & ‘consequences’ • Balancing national and community interests

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