Senate Broadband Inquiry

In June 2004 Callpoint's principal, Brian Beckor, contributed relevant background and the list of Telstra geospatial datasets that would need to be made available to support a pro-competitive infrastructure-based broadband industry.

A number of significant participants - with ATUG being a key driving force - strove to protect Australia's competitive telecommunications industry in the broadband era through these recommendations.

These collective efforts culiminated in the watershed Recommendation 10:

The Committee recommends that the Australian Communications Authority be provided with all of Telstra's current geospatial datasets, and that the Australian Communications Authority make available these datasets on request, in a useable format, to other carriers and ISPs (para. 4.88)
 

Senate Broadband Inquiry - Final Report (August 2004)