Previous consultations and submissions

Communications and technology

• 2004 Review of the Universal Service Obligation and Customer Service Guarantee (submissions closed)

• ACA Report - Preventing Unexpectedly High Bills: Credit Management in Telecommunications (submissions closed)

• Customer Service Guarantee (CSG) and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services - (submissions closed)

  Telecommunications (Customer Service Guarantee) Direction No. 1 of 1999 (Amendment No. 1 of 2007) is a draft Amending Direction to ACMA that implements Recommendation 16 of the Government’s 2005 VOIP report to remove the CSG from certain VOIP services. The draft Amending Direction is accompanied by an Explanatory Statement.

• Do Not Call Register - public comments (submissions closed)

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

• Review of Telecommunications Consumer Representation and Telecommunications Research Grants Programs Discussion Paper (submissions closed)

• Submissions to the review of the Universal Service Obligation and Customer Service Guarantee (submissions closed)

• VOIP policy and regulation (submissions closed)

• A review of Schedule 5 to the Broadcasting Services (Submissions closed)

  Links to the 2000 review of the Online Content Co-regulatory Scheme and stakeholder submissions replying to the report.

• A review of the regulation of content delivered over mobile communications devices (Submissions closed)

  On 15 July 2004 the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts invited stakeholders to comment on the Review of the Regulation of Content Delivered Over Mobile Communications Devices.

• ABC funding adequacy and efficiency review (Submissions closed)

• ACCC report on Pay TV competition (Submissions closed)

  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report on pay TV competition "Emerging Market Structures in the Communications Sector" - public submissions summary page.

• Digital conversion of self-help television retransmission sites: discussion paper (Submissions closed)

• Indigenous TV broadcasting service review—digital transmission discussion (Submissions closed)

• Introduction of digital radio issues paper (2004) (Submissions closed)

• Media reform discussion papers (Submissions closed)

• Options for structural reform in spectrum management—Discussion paper 2002 and submissions to date (Submissions closed)

  Options for Structural Reform in Spectrum Management - Discussion paper 2002 and submissions summary page

• Proposed reforms to the broadcasting regulatory powers of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Submissions closed)

• Review into high definition television quota arrangements (Submissions closed)

  The review of the HDTV quota requirement will provide an opportunity to assess the need for changes to the regulation of the provision of high definition television in Australia

• Review of restrictions on multichannelling and other services (Submissions closed)

  Review of restrictions on multichannelling and other services - discussion paper - cover page

• Review of the broadcasting services bands spectrum (Submissions closed)

  The Australian Government has commenced a review into whether all parts of the broadcasting services bands available for allocation for broadcasting or datacasting services have been identified and efficiently structured.

• Review of the duration of the analogue/digital television simulcast period (Submissions closed)

  The review covers issues including the arrangements for the cessation of analogue broadcasting and measures to ensure a full transition to digital television can take place.

• Review of the Indigenous broadcasting program (Submissions closed)

  This paper has been created to canvass, from a national perspective, issues relevant to the IBP in terms of approaches to future funding for eligible funding recipients.

• Review of the operation of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (Submissions closed)

  Links to the 2003 review of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 as well as stakeholder submissions replying to the report.

• Review of the provision of commercial television broadcasting services after 31 December 2006 (Submissions closed)

• Review of the regulation of content delivered over convergent devices (Submissions closed)

  This page provides access to the report of the Review of the Regulation of Content Delivered Over Convergent Devices, undertaken by DCITA.

• Review of underserved regional television licence areas (Submissions closed)

  The Australian Government has commenced a review into whether provisions of the BSA relating to additional commercial television broadcasting licences in underserved areas, including the exemptions from HDTV requirements for multichannelled services, should be amended or repealed.

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