[MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: House Communications Committee - wireless broadband inquiry

[Barry Park]

Update from the inquiry.
- Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: Dodd, Geoff (REPS) <Geoff.Dodd.Reps at aph.gov.au>
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:01 PM
Subject: House Communications Committee - wireless broadband inquiry


>Innovative telecommunications companies & researchers at broadband inquiry
>Public hearings in Canberra, Adelaide & Melbourne
>
>Some of Australia's most innovative specialist telecommunications companies
>and researchers are to appear before public hearings of the House of
>Representatives Communications Committee's inquiry into wireless broadband
>technologies in the next few days.
>
>Public hearings are to be held in
>* Canberra (Friday 28 June, Committee Room 2R2, 9am - 4pm)
>* Adelaide (Monday 1 July, Commonwealth Centre, 55 Currie Street, 9am
>- 11.15am) and
>* Melbourne (Tuesday 2 July, K-Room, Victorian State Parliament, 9am -
>4.30pm).
>
>Detailed hearing schedules follow.
>
>The House Communications Committee is examining how wireless broadband
>technologies can help deliver better communications services to Australian
>individuals, families, communities and businesses.
>
>In simple terms, broadband allows for high-speed data transfer, providing
>vastly improved Internet access with a far higher level of interactivity,
>but also enabling services such as digital video on demand, simultaneous
>phone and data and a range of applications and content that can reduce the
>cost of doing business and delivering government services.
>
>Wireless technology can be used to provide broadband services over the
>airwaves, thereby providing unwired networking and on-line services,
>mobility and convenience for business users, an alternative to existing
>wired networks and a new range of specialist applications.
>
>The Committee will recommend whether Government should make any changes to
>the telecommunications regulatory regime to ensure that Australia extracts
>the maximum economic and social benefits from the use of wireless broadband
>technologies.
>
>Submissions lodged by the above-mentioned companies can be read or
>downloaded from House Communications Committee website, at:
>http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/cita/Wbt/subslist.htm
>
>For comment, please contact the Committee Chair, Christopher Pyne, MP, on
>(02) 6277 4842 or (08) 8363 0666.
>For further information, please contact Brendhan Egan, Inquiry Secretary on
>(02) 6277 4588 or via email at Brendhan.Egan.Reps at aph.gov.au
>
>Hearing schedule attached:
>
> <<Wireless broadband - public hearing program 28june-2july02.doc>>
>
>Or it can be viewed at:
>http://www.aph.gov/house/committee/cita/Wbt/Phsched.htm
>
>
>Issued by:
>Geoff Dodd
>
>Assistant Director (Media/Communications)
>Liaison & Projects Office, House of Representatives
>tel: 02 6277 2063 w, 0401 143 724 m
>
>Have you discovered House News yet?
>http://www.aph.gov.au/house/house_news
>
>


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