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News and events

The latest information on new or changed Departmental initiatives for consumers of communications and information technology services.

  • Telecommunications Consumer Representation Stakeholder Forum

    The Telecommunications Consumer Representation Stakeholder Forum will identify ways to make consumer representation in telecommunications policy more effective.

  • Consumer fraud survey

    The department encourages consumers and small businesses to fill out an online survey on scams that consumers and small businesses have experienced and how they have responded to them.

  • Australian Broadband Guarantee

    General information on the Australian Broadband Guarantee program for consumers and Internet Service Providers.

  • Do Not Call Register

    Find information about the Do Not Call Register—a direct response to community concerns about unsolicited telemarketing calls.

  • The Satellite Phone Subsidy Scheme

    The Australian Government has extended until June 2009 its initiative to make mobile communications more accessible and affordable for people living or working in the most remote parts of Australia.

  • CDMA mobile network closure

    The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, announced that the CDMA network could be closed. Telstra intends to close the network on 28 April 2008.

  • Previous news and events

    Links to information about recent events relating to the communications and information technology sector.

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  • Last modified: 4 February 2008, 9:35am