Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit
Economics & Deregulation / Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit
New technologies have shaken up the telecommunications and media industry by bringing a wealth of new services and products to consumer. Technological innovation pervades all industries, and Australians benefit from the greater choice and competition available.
However the regulatory frameworks which govern this important sectors have changed little. The Institute of Public Affairs Telecommunications and Media Unit looks at the possibilities of new technology, and the outdated regulatory frameworks which hold them back.
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Future use of unassigned television channels
Australian spectrum policy is largely characterised by a 'command and control' approach to allocation. Such a top-down approach is ill-suited to managing the implementation and diffusion of technological innovations, nowhere more so than in the...
Meeting the Digital Challenge
Relatively recent far-reaching technological changes in media content production and delivery have exacerbated the adverse efficiency effects of the regulation of the Australian media. The upshot has made it more urgent to implement a major...
Media needs major reform, not minor tweaking
Proposals for media reform are same old same old. What is needed is massive radical deregulation.
Fashion and Foreign Aid
A realistic look at the "digital divide".
Fear of txt
Technological advances do not in themselves create social problems.
Can the future be made future-proof?
Vi@gr@ $old h^r^: Is your annoyance our problem?
Should the internet be left to entrepreneurs and innovators, or to government regulators?
