[LINK] ACMA document on Comms Services

[Roger Clarke]

There was a very useful document in the satchel for the ACMA 
'Communications Information Entertainment' conference at the Canberra 
Hyatt last Thu-Fri 23-24 Nov 06:

'Communications Services Availability in Australia 2005-06'
November 2006, c. 60 pp.
http://www.acma.gov.au/ACMAINTER.1507598:STANDARD::pc=PC_100215

It covers all the wired and unwired standards and networks, and 
because it's techno-factual the text is largely free of political 
bureaucratese (i.e. it seemed unlikely to the authors and their 
bosses that either the Minister's advisors or the populist media 
would ever read it, so it wasn't necessary to invest the usual 
agonising care into the expression).


Footnote re the conference audience:

Although it was mixed business and government, the government people 
must have dominated the 300-400 registrants.

When I got up, I told them what the cricket score had been 20 minutes 
earlier (with Ponting chasing his ton), and asked for any advance on 
that.

Not one person could (and was prepared to) tell us the current score.

I chastised them for being at a 'Communications Information 
Entertainment' conference but not applying the technologies they were 
talking about.

-- 
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