Historic reforms to telecommunications regulation
Source: The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Senator Stephen Conroy announced fundamental reforms to existing telecommunications regulations in the interests of Australian consumers and businesses.These reforms will drive future growth, productivity and innovation across all sectors of the economy by:
addressing Telstra's high level of integration to promote greater competition and consumer benefits; streamlining and simplifying the competition regime to provide more certain and quicker outcomes for telecommunications companies; strengthening consumer safeguards to ensure services standards are maintained at a high level; and removing redundant and inefficient regulatory red-tape.