It is increasingly apparent that the old models of consumer consultation in the Australian communications industry are struggling in today's fast-paced, converging wireless and IP networking world. In the past, consumer representation tended to focus on what was considered to be bad about telecommunications services, and solutions were largely seen to lie with the service...

In the digital age, in a time where increasing amounts of video are being published and distributed online, we need more quantitative information on user needs and user consumption of online video to determine a sensible broadcast and communications policy. This talk outlines what types of video communication we now encounter online, what approaches to...

The past four years have seen renewed interest in the role that structural remedies could play in shaping telecommunications markets. In the United Kingdom the threatened structural separation of British Telecom (BT) formed the starting point for a lengthy review by the regulator Ofcom which culminated in agreement on the implementation of the lesser remedy...

The unauthorised sharing of copyright-protected works over peer-to-peer ('P2P') networks is widely regarded by the music and movie industries ('rights holders') as the single biggest threat to their respective business models.

Media convergence and newsroom integration have become industry buzzwords as the ideas spread through newsrooms around the world. In November 2007 Fairfax Media in Australia introduced the newsroom of the future model, as its flagship newspapers moved into a purpose-built newsroom in Sydney. News Ltd, the country's next biggest media group, is also embracing multi-media...