Occasional Papers are essays or reports which ACCAN considers contributions to the debate on specific issues related to communications in Australia. Occasional Papers published by ACCAN may be based on work carried out by external experts or other activities organised or supported by ACCAN. Occasional Papers reflect the views of their authors. future of the Universal Service Obligation (USO)” “The Authored by John de Ridder Published in 2015 The operation of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network is made possible by funding provided by the Commonwealth of Australia section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997. This funding is recovered from charges on telecommunications carriers. De Ridder Consulting Pty Ltd Website: www.deridder.com.au Email: Telephone: +61 409 804 278 Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Website: www.accan.org.au Email: research@accan.org.au Telephone: 02 9288 4000 TTY: 02 9281 5322 ISBN: 978-1-921974-35-9 Cover: Richard Van Der Male. Image: Shutterstock, 2015 This work is copyright, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. You are free to cite, copy, communicate and adapt this work, so long as you attribute de Ridder and the Australian Communications Consumer Action “John Network (ACCAN)”. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ This work can be cited as: Ridder, John. 2015, The future of the Universal Service “De Obligation (USO)”, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Sydney.
Occasional Papers are essays or reports which ACCAN considers contributions to the debate on specific issues related to communications in Australia. Occasional Papers published by ACCAN may be based on work carried out by external experts or other activities organised or supported by ACCAN. Occasional Papers reflect the views of their authors. “The future of the Universal Service Obligation (USO)” Authored by John de Ridder Published in 2015 The operation of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network is made possible by funding provided by the Commonwealth of Australia section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997. This funding is recovered from charges on telecommunications carriers. De Ridder Consulting Pty Ltd Website: www.deridder.com.au Email: Telephone: +61 409 804 278 Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Website: www.accan.org.au Email: research@accan.org.au Telephone: 02 9288 4000 TTY: 02 9281 5322 ISBN: 978-1-921974-35-9 Cover: Richard Van Der Male. Image: Shutterstock, 2015 This work is copyright, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. You are free to cite, copy, communicate and adapt this work, so long as you attribute “John de Ridder and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN)”. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ This work can be cited as: “De Ridder, John. 2015, The future of the Universal Service Obligation (USO)”, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Sydney.
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