The ACA is the regulator of the Mobile Phone Industry. Its primary job appears to be to ensure that the maximum possible amount of money is extacted from the pockets of we users and channelled to those who manufacture, sell, and install Mobile Phone equipment.
The main technique used by ACA is to ban Analogue Phones. At the time of writing (mid-1997), no-one is to be permitted to offer an analogue mobile phone service after 31st December, 1999. Right now there are 2,700,000 analogue (AMPS) mobile phones in use in Australia. All will have to be scrapped and replaced with GSM digital phones which are much more expensive! So you can see how those in the industry LOVE the ACA. It's not so much their Regulator as their Fairy Godmother.
You can get the gospel according to the ACA from ACA's Home Page. The ACA was formed from the merger of the Spectrum Management Agency and AUSTEL on 1st July 1997.
ATUG is not much concerned with mobiles. ATUG's main concern appears to be large-volume landline users. To go to ATUG's WebSite, Click here.
What a CON! The TIO is funded by Telstra, Optus, Vodafone (not Vodaphone) et al. Save your postage stamps. If you have a complaint about Mobile Phones, join APUMP! If you want to see one of the most lacklustre WebSites of all, click here for the TIO's site.
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