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  Telecom competitors set 'ground rules' for broadband policy ahead of election

  With elections approaching next year, rivals of Telstra have urged for strong controls on the rates charged by Telstra for access to its infrastructure.

  By Adam Bender | 26 November, 2012 13:44

  Tags: policy, prices, structural separation, rates, regulation, Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC), government, competition, Telstra, elections

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  Telstra fires back at Vodafone on state of competition

  Competition has driven Telstra’s network build, the top Australian telco said in response to claims from Vodafone Hutchison Australia's CEO, Bill Morrow, that effective competition does not exist.

  By Adam Bender | 19 November, 2012 09:49

  Tags: regulatory, policy, Build, regulation, government, network, competition, Telstra, Vodafone Hutchison Australia, upgrades

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  Vodafone CEO urges regulators to rein in Telstra

  The NBN is not enough to level telecom competition in Australia, according to Vodafone Hutchison Australia CEO Bill Morrow. At an American Chamber of Commerce event today in Sydney, he called on government to support policies that scale back Telstra’s “regulatory favour.”

  By Adam Bender | 16 November, 2012 15:39

  Tags: universal service obligation (USO), regulatory, policy, backhaul, regulation, Vodafone, Telco, mobile, competition, Telstra, NBN, Monopoly

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  Open-source bias cheered, booed in planned EC rules review

  Industry groups criticized and praised on Monday what they consider is a bias in favor of open-source software in the European Commission's plans to update the rules governing industry standard technologies.

  By Paul Meller | 07 July, 2009 04:52

  Tags: open source, policy, europe, european commission

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  Does Social Networking Require User Policy Changes?

  IT security administrators have had a fairly easy case to make against such social networking sites as Myspace in the past. Myspace in particular tends to be a place for the mostly personal, and some profiles are simply front companies for online mobsters and malware pushers.

  By Bill Brenner | 16 April, 2009 10:28

  Tags: policy, security, social networking

Whitepapers about policy

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  Social Media Toolkit: Example Social Media Policy

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  Infrastructure Security: Getting to the Bottom of Compliance in the Cloud