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WIA Responds to the Government's Proposals for a New Act:

Posted: 30 Apr 2016 05:02 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/36684


Back in March, the Minister for Communications, Senator the Hon Mitch
Fifield, released a consultation paper on legislative proposals for a new
radiocommunications act, during his speech at the ACMA's RadComms 2016
Conference in Sydney. The Minister said, "Australia's current framework has
been in place since 1992. At the time, it led the world . . . but the
communications landscape has now changed dramatically . . . the
Government's Spectrum Review -- released in May last year - found that the
existing framework is slow, rigid and administratively cumbersome." Senator
Fifield went on to explain that "A new Radiocommunications Bill will
modernise our regime, and allow industry greater scope to respond quickly
in the market to emerging technologies and services."