Additional Rural Networks / Optus Television / Broadcasting Limited / Austar Foxtel Optus Television Total / Macquarie Bank / Telstra / Australian Broadcasting Corporation / News Corporation / SpectrumDesk / One / ACTEW Corporation / WorldCom / C&W Optus / Merging Telecom / Southern Cross / USO / Broadband Services Expert Group / TransACT / Digital Data Service Obligation / Vodafone / UnitedGlobalCom Telstra (50%) News Corp / MCI Worldcom / IDC / /
Continent
Europe / Australia / North America / /
Country
Iceland / Canada / Australia / United Kingdom / China / United States / /
Currency
USD / cent / AUD / / /
Event
Company Expansion / /
Facility
Victoria University / /
IndustryTerm
internet access / data network services / bandwidth local loop services / broadband networks / telephony services / satellite service / frame relay services / supply basic services / basic telephone services / telecommunications deregulation / declared supplier / copper infrastructure / personal communications / public broadcasters / communications technologies / asymmetric systems / mobile telephony / health services / data communications / speed Internet services / multipoint distribution systems / payphone services / Internet services / content services / unfair carrier practices / line services / mobile and local multipoint distribution communications / preferred technology / broadband communications capacity / education services / telecommunications service market / rural infrastructure / broadband and related services / trunk telecommunications network / telecommunications specific regulation / carrier licenses / tourist radio services / television services / telecommunication services / communications futures project / wireless terminals / backbone network / incumbent carrier market behaviour / residential communications networks / telecommunications specific legislation / understood products / telecommunications policy / application software / microwave systems / telecommunications / Wireless Access Protocol / information technology / wireless packet mode data services / regulatory tools / local loop infrastructure / bit rate product / retail layer / carriage services / satellite uplink / loss making services / policy tools / communications backbone / Public data communications revenues / competition law / e - commerce / carrier licence / computing / main broadband network / Internet users / broadband telecommunications / private networks / telecommunications market / microwave networks / broadband fibre networks / telecommunications-specific provisions / comparable satellite access / Fixed telecommunication services / disability equipment / supply telephony / public access cordless telecommunications services / telephone service / mobile data technologies / internet ambitions / radiocommunications technologies / pair infrastructure / optical fibre broadband network / radio services / 3G mobile technology / online trading exchange / telephony capacity / telephone services / asymmetric satellite services / generation mobile technologies / customer access network / basic rate services / Mobile internet / 2G services / cable modem internet access / wireless network / broadband infrastructure / satellite services / carrier service quality standards / e-commerce excellence / mobile internet subscribers / responsive telecommunications industry / telecommunications services / telecommunications-specific access regime subject / carrier license conditions / communications products / wireless offerings / customer equipment / digital data services / terrestrial telephone network / internet charging arrangements / satellite capacity / satellite system / speed Internet service using asymmetric satellite technology / service providers Internet / speed services / certain situations point-to-point microwave backbone networks / high internet / radio networks / telecommunications competition / universal services / electricity / satellite investment / trunk network / technology neutrality / telecommunications facilities / wireless data / telecommunications carriers / monopoly domestic telecommunications carrier / network services / electronic Internet-based biding system / media enterprises / voice telephony / broadband technologies / communications services / cabling services / supply new services / 3G services / broadband products / suitable software / network operator / xDSL services / telephony world / trunk infrastructure / broadband communications network / speed carrier network / mobile telecommunications services / multimedia and even television services / basic services / similar product / basic and reliable telephone services / /
NaturalFeature
Central Coast / Gold Coast / /
Organization
Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics / Commonwealth Government / OECD / Productivity Commission / Australian Telecommunications Authority / Australian Information Economy Advisory Council / Victoria University / Melbourne / African Union / Information Policy Advisory Council / Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation / ITU’s Strategyy and Policy Unit / Australian Broadcasting Authority / Australian Communications Authority / Postmaster-General’s Department / Federal Court / General Packet Radio Service / United Nations / Overseas Telecommunications Commission / Special Broadcasting Service / regional universal service / International Telecommunication Union / Australian Competition and Consumer Commission / /
Person
Austar / Peter Morris / John Houghton / Paul Budde / Ben A. Petrazzini / /
Position
Regulatory Affairs Adviser / Major / Secretary-General / major driver of telecommunications policy / controller / Minister for Communications / /
Product
Optus Service / /
ProvinceOrState
Capital Territory / South Australia / Northern Territory / Western Australia / Queensland / Victoria / /
PublishedMedium
the Southern Cross / /
RadioStation
126 AM / /
Region
South Australia / east coast / Western Australia / west Victoria / Central Coast / Asia-Pacific / /
TVStation
Kbit / /
Technology
3G mobile technology / mobile data technologies / information technology / video on demand / ADSL / DSL technologies / CAN technologies / 2.2 Convergent communications technologies / twisted pair / WAP / PSTN / ISP / GSM / preferred technology / 3G / cable modems / cable modem / broadband / SMS / four technologies / microwave / ATM / LMDS / application protocol / broadband access / DSL / Cable TV / ISDN / VDSL / 2.5 generation mobile technologies / frame relay / coaxial cable / packet switching / optical fibre / Wireless Access Protocol / broadband network / broadband technologies / high speed Internet service using asymmetric satellite technology / mobile telephony / radiocommunications technologies / /
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