Are you ready for the new Financial Hardship Standard?
The new Telecommunications (Financial Hardship) Industry Standard 2024 (Standard) comes into effect from 29 March 2024. Applicable CSPs will face new obligations under the Standard, and must make changes to their current policies, processes and operations to ensure compliance with the new Standard.
Advocacy Corner – May to July 2023
Things continue to be busy for the policy team. Over the past couple months, we’ve been involved in the NBN Co SAU (Special Access Undertaking) variation process which will hopefully come to a close by the end of the year. NBN Co will be submitting an updated SAU later this month, and hopefully, this iteration will be acceptable.
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Tech Policy Design Centre appoints Narelle to Risk and Resilience Expert Panel
In June of 2023 the Australian National University (ANU) Tech Policy Design Centre selected a panel of 26 independent subject-matter experts to form a Risk and Resilience Expert Panel (RREP).
Our CEO, Narelle Clark, was chosen among experts from industry, government, civil society and academia to discuss issues and barriers to telecommunications resilience.
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Budget 2023-24: How will this affect telcos?
The national 2023-24 Budget was released earlier this month, which will no doubt impact the telco sector in the year ahead. It’s clear that cyber security and online safety are core focuses for the government, with a particularly significant increase in investment towards eSafety.