Since ACMA's inception a decade ago, the telecommunications industry has experienced major changes, driven by:

• rapid technological change;
• growing ubiquity and speed of fixed and mobile broadband networks;
• availability and uptake of increasingly sophisticated consumer devices;
• miniaturisation; and
• virtualisation of physical infrastructure.

Commissioned on 12 June last year by the then Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, the draft review has found that while the ACMA has generally performed its regulatory role well over the last ten years, urgent reform is needed in order to:

• clarify the remit of the regulator to set the boundaries of its regulatory responsibility and oversight;
• change the regulator's functions;
• provide a clearer formal advice from the Government to the ACMA on its expectations, within the boundaries of its statutory independence, and reporting by the ACMA on its delivery against these;
• introduce new governance arrangements involving a ‘commission’ model of full-time, specialist members supported by associate members and sub-boards; and
• embed in its establishing legislation a series of regulator principles to guide performance.

ACMA invites examination of the draft report, and written submissions by Friday, 10 June 2016.