Most importantly we are the central body speaking up for those who consume the products in this space and all of its wonderful new technologies we are the Australian telecommunications users group. We count among our members many related industry associations - large and small in essence an informal australian telecommunications umbrella group. We have good relationships with organisations focused on residential, regional and rural telecommunications needs and services. In the early days we focused on achieving competition at policy level acts, regulations, licences, standards, industry gabfests. We have achieved our aim successfully.
Competition policy is top of the national agenda.
We have and will continue to participate actively in all the groups whose work is focused on implementing a competitive telecommunications industry technical, standards, codes of practice, policy reviews, inquiries, industry briefings. We have a dynamic program of information and networking activities for our members designed to put them in the best position to make informed decisions about the range of telecomms technologies, products and services for their organisations and customers. The next round of improvements in the industry product, performance and price will be driven by the marketplace. Let s look at the scorecard Not a comment on the individual players, but the lapsed lawyer in me says we can expect people to play the game to their maximum advantage. Not surprisingly so did the capex spend of the biggest incumbent.