Conroy threat to rein in telcos

DAN HARRISON, CANBERRA
October 26, 2009
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy has threatened telecommunications companies with a legislative crackdown unless they dramatically improve their customer service.

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Largely copied shamelessly from GetUp, but that doesn't make this any less true...

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It's decision time for the Government on internet censorship - with results from their flawed live trial due any day now. Now is the time to make it clear how deeply unpopular this scheme is.
The Government is admitting it has no criteria to determine if the trials ( Read more... )

I'm not going to comment on the Testra thing, for two reasons.

One: I work there.
Two: Other people do it better.

Basically, we get promised high speed broadband.

Then Conroy wants to filter it, making it low speed crap.

Then he wants to be able to block sites without telling us for unexplained reasons that are not clear - basically he could block ( Read more... )