[LINK] Fwd: MR112-08: How ACMA is using a total welfare standard to evaluate ‘the public interest’ in performing its regulatory role [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Antony Barry]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Australian Communications & Media Authority"  
> <media at acma.gov.au>
> Date: 4 September 2008 11:03:36 AM
> To: <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au>
> Subject: MR112-08: How ACMA is using a total welfare standard to  
> evaluate ‘the public interest’ in performing its regulatory role  
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> Reply-To: media at acma.gov.au
>
> The Australian Communications and Media Authority will generally  
> adopt a ‘total welfare test’ in making judgments about what  
> regulatory approach to a given issue is in the public interest,  
> according to ACMA’s Principal Economist, Rebecca Burdon when  
> recently addressing the ACE Telecommunications Summit in Sydney.  
> The full media release can be found at http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/ 
> STANDARD/pc=PC_311378
>


Antony Barry
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