Mobile premium services are the best known and most widely used form of mobile payment to date. They are essentially a method of electronic payment, a platform on which consumers can purchase content such as ringtones, games or news updates (generally via sending an SMS text message to a '19' number), that gets sent to...

The first sections of this paper will review how those issues have been addressed as the technology has changed and, with it, how the universal service has been defined, delivered and paid for in differing regulatory contexts. The Government's policy for the provision of a National Broadband Network (NBN), however, significantly alters the technological and...

This presentation covers research into listener attitudes toward advertising, sponsorship and commercial influence, in news and current affairs programs, on commercial radio. Commercial radio continues to be a significant part of our contemporary media environment, and is also a 'traditional' broadcast media that is subject to content regulation via industry codes of practice, program standards...

The term ‘digital economy’ covers the global network of economic and social activities that are enabled by digital information and communication technologies such as the internet, mobile and sensor networks. • the application of information and communication technologies (otherwise called ICT) to social and economic activity• internet and internet protocol (IP) technologies increasingly at the...

Empowering citizens against cyber security risks: international approaches.