TY - Working paper AU - Holly Raiche PY - 2010 T1 - Universal communications in a broadband world PB - Australian Communications Consumer Action Network DO - https://doi.org/APO-30430 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/30430 AB - Do Australians have a right to access a telecommunications service? There are at least two schools of thought: the view that sees universal service as a basic right of citizens, essential for membership in the community, as against the view that sees universal service as an economic good to be delivered in the market, where the paramount questions are efficiency and the distribution of economic welfare. ER -