Family homes are equipped with multiple television sets, personal computers, digital music players, mobile telephones, fax machines, DVD players and electronic game consoles, the home is now a communication hub, enabling family members to perform numerous activities in a variety of times and spaces. As such, families are dealing with the cumulative effects of household...

The aim of this paper is to examine the economic impact of proposals to add a non-cost 'premium' to international telecommunication charges. This work follows up on earlier OECD work which examined international traffic exchange. The paper concludes that attempts to use non-market methods, and distort prices, is likely to have negative implications for the...

Everybody has a story to tell about telemarketing, writes Josh Fear.

Drawing on public submissions to its discussion paper, Australia's Future Infrastructure Requirements, this paper examines the national and local challenges for the provision of improved economic infrastructure, including telecommunications, road and rail projects.

This paper discusses the views of Australian households without a broadband connection. It is based on preliminary analysis of survey data collected during August-September 2008 from a representative sample of Australian households. While a lot of work is done on the early stages of adoption of any innovation, there is little focus on the late...