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From Universal Service to Universal Communications
Authors: Raiche Holly 
Published: April 2019

The policy of universal service must change. The 1975 world of a government-owned monopoly provider obligated to provide fixed line voice telephony has been replaced by the twenty-first century reality of Australians using fixed, mobile and text communications over a range of communications equipment and services provided by competitive providers. A new universal service must reflect those changed realities, and with it, the changed environment of a national broadband network, with competitive providers offering service and equipment choice.
The NBN from 2009 to 2016 and Beyond - A Commentary on Mike Quigley’s June 2016 Address to the Telecommunications Association
Authors: Campbell Leith H 
Published: April 2019

On 22 June 2016, Mike Quigley, the founding CEO of NBN Co, gave an address to TelSoc on his insights into, and predictions for, the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN). This article provides a brief summary of his presentation and a commentary on some of the issues raised. Mr Quigley contended that, if there had not been a hiatus and change of direction after the election of the Coalition government in 2013, the rollout of the NBN would have been completed by December 2021 within a peak funding of $45 billion, broadly in accord with NBN Co’s plans from September 2013. A major part of the original plan was for fibre to 93% of existing premises within the fixed-line footprint of the NBN. He noted that the replacement of the fibre plan in 2013 with a multi-technology mix had slowed deployment. He showed that the Coalition’s assertions while in opposition about the cost and take-up of the NBN had not proved true up to December 2015. Mr Quigley’s critique also raised a number of issues about the future direction of the NBN, particularly with regard to a future upgrade of technology and greater capacity needs.
Market Evolution and Regulation in the Italian Telecommunications Industry
Authors: Cambini Carlo , Soroush Golnoush 
Published: April 2019

In this paper we analyse the evolution of the Italian telecommunications market since the beginning of the liberalisation and privatisation process in Italy started in the mid-nineties. The role of competition and regulatory authorities is also considered. We present a survey of the main regulatory interventions in the industry as well as the market structure and its dynamics in the period 2000-2015. We also provide some insights on the current state of the ultra-fast broadband access and the evolution of the so called “next generation networks”. In this regard, the recent Italian government’s plan regarding the deployment of the broadband services is also discussed. Our research can provide helpful information on telecommunications trends in Italy and would help to assess past as well as ongoing policies.
Net Neutrality: An Incyte Perspective responding to recent developments in the European Union
Authors: Rogerson David Alfred , Seixas Pedro , Holmes James Robert 
Published: April 2019

The road to net neutrality within the European Union (EU) has been slow and winding. However, a major milestone was reached in August 2016 through the publication of the BEREC Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulators of European Net Neutrality Rules. These Guidelines, which must be given the “utmost consideration” by national regulators, provide the EU’s first detailed and unambiguous regulatory commitment to net neutrality, and are carefully crafted to balance the needs of content providers and network operators. This extended article explores the scope of the net neutrality principle as understood and applied in a number of jurisdictions. The approach in the EU is contrasted with the approaches of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States (US) and of a number of other countries. Although there are some constants that recur for net neutrality in all of the countries examined, there remain a variety of specific local connotations.The article indicates that the question, “What is net neutrality?” will continue to be asked and continue to be very apposite for some time. The EU approach, with the BEREC Guidelines, will likely be central to a more harmonised approach worldwide.It also argues that the new EU framework is likely to be even more influential than its highly publicized but politically fractious US equivalent. The EU approach to net neutrality will find greater favour among developing countries, as it provides sufficient flexibility to offer network investment incentives whilst retaining appropriate competition and user safeguards. As with the earlier EU ex-ante regulatory frameworks for market analysis and cost-based interconnection, the BEREC paper paves the way for continued export of best practice regulation from the EU to the rest of the world. However, there are issues that demand caution in how the BEREC approach might be implemented.The authors have extensive experience as consultants and commentators on telecommunications industry and regulatory issues in many countries. David Rogerson and Jim Holmes are founding partners of Incyte Consulting, located in Falkirk (Scotland) and Melbourne, respectively. Pedro Seixas is a Principal Associate of Incyte Consulting located in Frankfurt.
30 Years After Launch
Authors: Campbell Ian 
Published: April 2019

This year is the 30th anniversary of Telecom Australia's launch of the cellular mobile service in Australia. There has been a huge evolution in mobile services since then.The Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) introduced a manually (operator) connected mobile service in Australia in 1950. As this service approached full capacity, Telecom launched a Public Automatic Mobile Telephone Service (PAMTS) in 1981. The PAMTS service had no future technology evolution, a 12 year life, and reached a peak of 14,000 customers.By 1985 a small engineering team had developed a cellular mobile service concept based on the Analogue Mobile Phone Service (AMPS ) standard. Development was accelerated and refined and the service was launched in 1987, arguably two and perhaps three years late.This is the story of the development and launch of the service and the growth over the first four years to 1991.Noting the experience of cellular operators in the USA, Canada and the UK, Telecom's mobile service concept was a "gold standard" for cellular services around the world, and the service achieved one of the fastest growth rates in its early years.Within four years it was a cash flow powerhouse, and one of only three services within Telecom that were profitable; the others were the basic telephone service and directory publishing.When transferred to Telstra in 1992 it was a strategically strong, highly profitable business prepared to defend against competition being introduced into the Australian telecommunications market, and was a foundation of Telstra's financial strength for the next 30 years.
Making ICT Decommissioning Sexy! Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Hormann Peter 
Published: April 2019

The author contends that the ICT industry has become good at accumulating large inventories of ICT systems without paying sufficient attention to the associated technical debt and cost. He has experienced organisations that have repeatedly failed to retire old systems, are struggling to modernise, are burdened by complexity and can’t change at a pace demanded by their internal stakeholders and their customers. Why is this case and why isn’t the decision to switch off ageing, low business value, poor strategic fit and high-risk systems an easy and obvious business case? This paper explores the challenges of decommissioning decision making and uses a framework and case study analysis as a means to improve the timeliness and financial motivations. It should be of interest to ICT and business executives that struggle with balancing a tight budget around existing systems, with the need to invest in systems modernisation to maintain organisation competitiveness and productivity.
An Evaluation and Enhancement of a Novel IoT Joining Protocol
Authors: Steane Tyler Nicholas Edward , Radcliffe PJ 
Published: April 2019

The ability to securely join IoT Devices to Wi-Fi networks is an on-going area of research. This paper describes how Nasrin & Radcliffe's theoretical “novel minimalist IoT network joining protocol” has been mapped to real world hardware and implemented using the Android operating system. For the first time the theory is proven to be practically viable but it is also shown that the user interface is not sufficiently simple for the everyday user. This paper proposes and implements a new user interface paradigm that dramatically simplifies the process and makes the joining process accessible to a much larger range of users. For intensely cost sensitive applications an alternative process is proposed that has the possibility of even further simplifying the user experience. Finally the compatibility of the protocol with a variety of operating systems is assessed.
Implications of Open Source Blockchain for increasing efficiency and transparency of the Digital Content Supply Chain in the Australian Telecommunications and Media Industry
Authors: Plant Laurence 
Published: April 2019

While digital content is key to the Australian Telecommunications and Media industry, there is little industry cooperation to improve the content lifecycle across industry segments including production, distribution and advertising. With the emergence of hyperledger, an open source blockchain technology for shared ledger, there is opportunity for the industry to collaborate to improve content lifecycle transparency, trust and efficiency while protecting consumer privacy. Individual business networks and supply chains within the industry can tactically deploy hyperledger as a shadow ledger as a starting point, and widespread, consistent industry adoption is more readily achieved through government regulatory guidelines and a wholesale digital content infrastructure provider taking a leading role.
Historical paper: The 2004 Proposal for the Structural Separation of Telstra
Authors: Gerrand Peter 
Published: April 2019

A comment by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on 23 October 2017 has re-awakened interest in the possibility that lay open in 2004 for the then Coalition government, of which Mr Turnbull was a member, to have preceded New Zealand in reaping the benefits of structural separation of the incumbent carrier. The paper “Revisiting the Stuctural Separation of Telstra”, published in the Spring 2004 issue of the Telecommunications Journal of Australia and republished below, provided not just the policy rationale for structural separation, but also detailed how it could have been achieved.
Españoles tras las alambradas. Republicanos en los campos franceses, nazis y soviéticos (1939-1956) = Spaniards behind Barbed Wire. Republicans in the French, Nazi and Soviet camps (1939-1956)
Authors: Iordache Cârstea Luiza 
Published: April 2019

Resumen: En un destino común, muchos republicanos españoles fueron víctimas de políticas de rechazo, exclusión, persecución, violencia y castigo en calidad de extranjeros «indeseables», «opositores», «rojos», «enemigos» o candidatos a serlo en regímenes democráticos y «totalitarios», concretamente en la Tercera República francesa, la Alemania nazi y la URSS estalinista. Como consecuencia de esas políticas, además de las coyunturas europeas y los contextos políticos, sociales y económicos de aquellos países, miles y miles de españoles fueron internados, deportados y recluidos en campos franceses, nazis y soviéticos. Partiendo de la experiencia compartida del exilio y del internamiento, el presente texto analiza el vía crucis de los españoles en aquellos sistemas concentracionarios y refleja las características comunes y singulares de esos desde una perspectiva comparada. Palabras clave: Exilio, campos de concentración, Francia, Alemania, URSS.Abstract: In a common destiny, many Spanish Republicans were victims of policies of rejection, exclusion, persecution, violence and punishment as «undesirable» foreigners, «opponents», «reds», «enemies» or candidates to be in democratic regimes and «totalitarian» ones, specifically in the Third French Republic, Nazi Germany and the USSR under Stalin. As a result of these policies, besides the European circumstances and the political, social and economic context of those countries, thousand and thousand Spaniards were interned, deported and detained in French, Nazi and Soviet camps. Based on the shared experience of exile and internment, the article analyzes the vía crucis of the Spaniards in those concentracionary systems and reflects the common and unique characteristics of those from a comparative approach. Keywords: Exile, concentration camps, France, Third Reich, USSR.
COMPASS: a COMprehensive Platform for smAll RNA-Seq data analySis
Authors: Li Jiang , Kho Alvin T. , Chase Robert P. , Pantano-Rubino Lorena , Farnam Leanna , Amr Sami S. , Tantisira Kelan G. 
Published: April 2019

Abstract
Background

Circulating RNAs are potential disease biomarkers and their function is being actively investigated. Next generation sequencing (NGS) is a common means to interrogate the small RNA'ome or the full spectrum of small RNAs (<200 nucleotide length) of a biological system. A pivotal problem in NGS based small RNA analysis is identifying and quantifying the small RNA'ome constituent components. Most existing NGS data analysis tools focus on the microRNA component and a few other small RNA types like piRNA, snRNA and snoRNA. A comprehensive platform is needed to interrogate the full small RNA'ome, a prerequisite for down-stream data analysis.

Results

We present COMPASS, a comprehensive modular stand-alone platform for identifying and quantifying small RNAs from small RNA sequencing data. COMPASS contains prebuilt customizable standard RNA databases and sequence processing tools to enable turnkey basic small RNA analysis. We evaluated COMPASS against comparable existing tools on small RNA sequencing data set from serum samples of 12 healthy human controls, and COMPASS identified a greater diversity and abundance of small RNA molecules.

Conclusion

COMPASS is modular, stand-alone and integrates multiple customizable RNA databases and sequence processing tool and is distributed under the GNU General Public License free to non-commercial registered users at https://regepi.bwh.harvard.edu/circurna/ and the source code is available at https://github.com/cougarlj/COMPASS.
DNA barcoding evidence for the North American presence of alfalfa cyst nematode, Heterodera medicaginis
Authors: Powers Thomas , Skantar Andrea , Harris Tim , Higgins Rebecca , Mullin Peter , Hafez Saad , Handoo Zafar , Todd Tim , Powers Kirsten 
Published: April 2019

Abstract
Specimens of Heterodera have been collected from alfalfa fields in Kearny County, Kansas & Carbon County, Montana. DNA barcoding with the COI mitochondrial gene indicate that the species is not Heterodera glycines, soybean cyst nematode, H. schachtii, sugar beet cyst nematode, or H. trifolii, clover cyst nematode. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic trees show that the alfalfa specimens form a sister clade most closely related to H. glycines, with a 4.7% mean pairwise sequence divergence across the 862 nucleotides of the COI marker. Morphological analyses of juveniles and cysts conform to the measurements of H. medicaginis, the alfalfa cyst nematode originally described from the USSR in 1971. Initial host testing demonstrated that the nematode reproduced on alfalfa, but not on soybeans, tomato, or corn. Collectively, the evidence suggests that this finding represents the first record of H. medicaginis in North America. Definitive confirmation of this diagnosis would require COI sequence of eastern European isolates of this species.
Ground‐Truthing a Recent Report of Cover Crop–Induced Winter Warming
Authors: Hunter Mitchell C. , White Charles M. , Kaye Jason P. , Kemanian Armen R. 
Published: April 2019

Core Ideas
It was recently reported that cover crops could raise winter temperature up to 3°C.
Agronomic context and measured cover crop morphology indicate this is unlikely.
The most realistic cover crop scenario did not cause significant local warming.
Winter cover crops remain a potential tool for climate mitigation.
Winter cover crops have been proposed as a potential climate mitigation practice, but a recent study concluded that cover crops may increase local temperature by up to 3°C. Here, we present agronomic context and data on cover crop morphology to ground‐truth the scenarios simulated in this study. We conclude that the scenario of cover crop morphology on which the study's headline claim is based is unlikely to be found in contemporary production systems. The most realistic scenario simulated did not result in significant local warming. Therefore, we argue that widespread planting of cover crops is unlikely to substantially increase local winter temperatures.
Facebook in an English Guided Self Learning Class
Authors: Wiannastiti Melania 
Published: April 2019

The use of technology especially the Internet in language teaching and learning has become more popular nowadays since it is more interesting and effective. Nowadays, since almost every person has at least a gadget connected to the Internet, the teaching learning is possible to be carried out outside the classroom in the way of autonomous learning. Language learners are likely to look to computers and the Internet for resources of learning. By applying the Internet as the type of learning, students are exposed to optimize the use their gadget connected to the Internet. This type of learning was also applied for Binus pre-university students learning English Smart Program in GSLC (Guided Self Learning Class). Based on the background, this paper aims to explain what GSLC is and describe how Facebook as the Internet social media can be used for supporting GSLC. There are many advantages the students and the lecturer get from using this media in GSLC. From result of the questionnaire, FB is affective to support them in learning. In conclusion, Facebook can be used to support the GSLC activities.
Bagaimana Product Knowledge dan Product Involvement Memotivasi Konsumen? (Kajian Motivasi Masyarakat Terhadap Pemilihan Jurusan Komunikasi Pemasaran Universitas Bina Nusantara sebagai Tempat Melanjutkan Pendidikan Tinggi)
Authors: Damanik Elsye Rumondang 
Published: April 2019

Consumers require knowledge and involvement upon consuming products/services. In order to find out the characteristics of the products/services, consumers perform certain efforts from searching information through the media, being directly involved by using the products/services, to asking questions to the products/services users. Consumers’ level of interest and ability in deciding which products/services they want to use also vary. Consumers are highly influenced by product knowledge, and (personal) involvement with the chosen products/services. This research aims at understanding how characteristics of products/services and personal involvement motivate consumers in using the services of Jurusan Komunikasi Pemasaran Universitas Bina Nusantara. Using quantitative research approach, this research tried to understand the level of validity and reliability of research instrument, the efficiency of research instrument, and relationship among variables. The result showed that the research instrument is valid and reliabel. The reliability is stated from the Cronbach Alpha value of each variable (product knowledge = 0,877; product involvement = 0,734; motivation = 0,836). The instrument is valid with Corrected Item-Total Correlation value of 0,148 (approx. df = N-2; or df = 164). It is concluded that consumers’ product knowledge and product involvement to Jurusan Komunikasi Pemasaran Universitas Bina Nusantara motivate the (future) students in putting it as the preferred place to have quality education. One of the suggestions is to invite more media practitioners during Open House Program since it will enable the (future) students to have better understanding on the communication related activities.
Real-World Clinical Effectiveness and Tolerability of Hydroxychloroquine 400 Mg in Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Subjects who are not Willing to Initiate Insulin Therapy (HYQ-Real-World Study)
Authors: Gupta Amit 
Published: April 2019

Objective:
The epidemic of T2DM is rising across the globe. Systemic inflammation plays a
pivotal role in the pathogenesis and complications of T2DM. Combination of two or more oral hypoglycemic
agents (OHA) is widely prescribed in patients with T2DM, however many patients have poor
glycemic control despite receiving combination therapy. The new antidiabetic drugs are relatively
costly or many patients have anxiety over the use of injectable insulin. The objective of this observational
study was to investigate the effectiveness and tolerability of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in
T2DM patients uncontrolled on multiple OHA and despite high sugar level not willing to initiate insulin
therapy in a real-world clinical setting.

Methods:
A prospective, investigator-initiated, observational, single-centred study was conducted
where 250 patients (18-65 years) with T2DM for more than 5 years, with uncontrolled glycemia despite
on a combination of multiple OHA, HbA1c between ≥7% and <10.5%, FPG >130 mg/dL or PPG >180
mg/dL and BMI between >25 and <39 kg/m2, were prescribed hydroxychloroquine sulphate 400 mg
once daily for 48 weeks. Percentage of drugs used at the baseline were as follows: metformin 2000 mg
(100%), glimepiride 4 mg (100%), pioglitazone 30 mg (100%), sitagliptin 100 mg (100%), canagliflozin
300 mg (52.4%), empagliflozin 25 mg (22.8%), dapagliflozin 10 mg (17.6%) and voglibose 0.3
mg (62%). Mean change in HbA1c, blood glucose and hs-CRP at baseline, week 12, 24 and 48 were
assessed using the paired t-test.

Results:
After 48 weeks of add-on treatment with HCQ, almost all SGLT-2 inhibitors were withdrawn;
metformin dose was reduced to 1000 mg, glimepiride reduced to 1 mg and sitagliptin reduced to 50 mg
OD. Patients continued to have good glycemic control. HbA1c was reduced from 8.83% to 6.44%. Reduction
in FPG was 40.78% (baseline 177.30 mg/dL) and PPG was reduced by 58.95% (baseline
329.86 mg/dL). Change in mean body weight was -4.66 Kg. The reduction in glycemic parameters and
mean body weight was significant (p < 0.0001). Hs-CRP was significantly reduced from 2.70±1.98
mg/L to 0.71±0.30 mg/L 9 (p < 0.0001). More reduction in glycemic parameters and body weight was
observed among the patients with higher hs-CRP (> 3 mg/L) as compared to patients with baseline hs-
CRP ≤ 3 mg/L. Most common adverse events reported with the drug therapy were GI irritation (3.6%)
and hypoglycemia (2%). None of the patients required medical assistance for hypoglycemia.

Conclusion:
Add-on treatment of HCQ effectively improved glycemic control in T2DM patients uncontrolled
on multiple antidiabetic drugs. By virtue of its antidiabetic and anti-inflammatory properties,
it may emerge as a valuable therapeutic intervention for the patients with T2DM.