[LINK] A new Communications Consumer Action group

[Jan Whitaker]

from: Fwd: Slattery's Watch - 8th December, 2008
>The establishment of the 
><http://slattery.slatteryit.com.au/rp//118/process.clsp?t=2AFA597A75B3C872DBB4499CAD8B93861>Australian 
>Communications Consumers Action Network (ACCAN) 
>is to be helped by a $700,000 Federal Government 
>grant. The Government announced the plans for 
>the new body in May 2008, and allocated $87,000 
>in transitional funding the following month. The 
>additional funding follows the Government’s 
>recent endorsement of the Telecommunications 
>Industry Ombudsman connect.resolve campaign. The 
>establishment of ACCAN is being coordinated by 
>the Consumers Telecommunications Network.

I wonder if their remit allows them to counter 
the govt's proposed filtering system? ;-)

and this update on digtv switchover:
>The Digital Television Switchover Bill 2008 has 
>been 
><http://slattery.slatteryit.com.au/rp//118/process.clsp?t=27E0AE18250CACAB5BF409A68EF01B3B9>passed 
>– the last legislation to pass in 2008 – 
>allowing for “the upgrade of essential national 
>communications infrastructure”. The Government 
>has set 31 December 2013 as the date for the 
>switch-off of analog television, with Mildura to 
>be the first to switch-off in 2010. Work is 
>underway on the Digital Tracker research 
>program, which will provide quarterly reports on 
>regional switchover trends. The Government will 
>also publish progress reports on signal blackspots.


Jan



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