Sunday, December 14, 2014

Turnbull's Triumph? Not really.

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Christmas has come early for NBN Co and the Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull. Not only have they been able to announce the rene...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Does the nation have a Digital Economy Strategy?

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A group of carriers, consumer and small business representatives has formed a coalition that argues that Australia must set an ambitious bro...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Competition in telecommunications ... ITU data

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This week the ITU has published its latest ICT Development Index . I don't want to write about that now - except to state that like so m...

Competition in telecommunications...UK style

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One of these days I will write a definitive account of how we all got so much wrong in the pursuit of better outcomes in telecommunications ...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

About tax

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No matter how much modern libertarians might fantasise about small government, the size is never zero and so governments need to raise tax. ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The use and abuse of price signals

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I was somewhat confused to read in this morning's Oz  about Tony Abbott's plans for the G20 . We all know that the G20 goal is t...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Missing in Action: The Productivity Commission and ICT in the 21st Century

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(This paper was originally drafted over two years ago - but its conclusions are still valid) In the late 1990s the Productivity Commissio...