Publications
Publications and Speeches
2022
– Changing business models (April 2022) Australia and Solomon Is
2021
– Volume pricing – a world first (September 2021) A world first
– Universal service and competition (September 2021)AJDTE
– NBN – time to take the gloves off (April 2021) Gloves off
– PTC-21 (January 2021)Poster
2020
– Universal Service and Competition (September) Universal service and competition
– Pricing for Abundance (October) AJTDE
– What are we going to do about Netflix? (September) Economuse 2020-09-29
– Who will blink first on NBN pricing?(July) Who will blink?
– Asset valuation for access pricing (April) Asset valuation
– Pricing for Abundance (February) Economuse 2020-02-12
2019
– 2019 review of broadband pricing (October) Economuse 2019-10-21
2018
– 2018 review of broadband pricing (October) Economuse 2018-10-04
– NBN – More convoluted pricing (September) Economuse 2018-08-21
– Senate testimony on the NBN (June) Senate testimony
– NBN – “A pea and thimble trick” (January) Economuse 2018-01-29
2017
– Whats is the fair value of the nbn? (23 October) Economuse 2017-10-24
– Are nbn prices out of control? (9 October) Economuse 2017-10-10
– A new approach to rural and remote communications (October) Safetynet AJTDE
– 2017 review of broadband pricing (27 September) Economuse 2017-09-27
– An open letter to the CEO of the nbn, Bill Morrow (6 September) How to fix the NBN
– Price rebalancing to make the nbn affordable (10 August) Economuse 2017-8-10
– Letter to Comms Day (2 August) Letter to the Editor-2 Aug 2017
– The blame game – cutting the Gordian knot (30 July) Economuse 2017-7-31
– SafetyNet – Beyond mobile declaration (February) Economuse 2017-2-03-safety net
– SafetyNet (February) Safetynet-1
2016
– NBN Co. fiddles while Roma buffers (December) economuse-2016-11-30
– Who’s afraid of mobile data? (November) economuse-2016-10-02
– 2016 review of broadband pricing (September) economuse-2016-09-19
– What’s the smart way to buy a smartphone? (September) economuse-2016-09-15
– Will New Zealand get it right? (August) Economuse 2016-08-29
– Submission on NZ reforms (August) NZ-2016
– The Productivity Commission and the USO (July) Economuse 2016-07-14
– Submission to the productivity Commission (July) USO-Prod.Com.July-2016
– The NBN and competitive neutrality (June) Economuse 2016-06-06
– Farmwide – A lost maverick (May) Economuse 2016-05-27
– Australia – Few players and no mavericks (May) Economuse 2016-05-09
– Data roaming – Let’s roam like at home (April) Economuse 2016-04-29-roam
– CVCs – Is pricing crippling the NBN? (April) Economuse 2016-04
– Let’s abolish CVC pricing and the ICRA! (April) COMMUNICATIONS DAY-7-4-2016
– Broadband news – Take-up and TPG plan B or C? (Feb) Economuse 2016-02-16
2015
– Who are you going to call? The Future of the USO (Dec) AJTDE-Final-JdR
– CVCs again – this is not the end game (Nov) Economuse 2015-11-30
-The Future of the USO (Nov) Economuse 2015-11-25
-ACCAN Occasional Paper on the future of the USO (Nov) ACCAN-USO
– USO Levy Study – Final paper (Oct) Economuse 2015-10-20
– 2015 Review of broadband pricing (Sep) Economuse 2015-09-29
– Mobiles and the universal service obligation (July) Economuse 2015-07-15
– Mobiles and the NBN – again (June) Economuse 2015-06-19
– A shaky start for the USO levy study (June) Economuse 2015-06-01
– Submission to the BCR NBN Funding Options Paper (May) USO-Levy-JdR
– Are CVCs “evil, stupid and counterproductive”? (May) Economuse 2015-05-14
– Is this the last chance to reform NBN pricing? (April) Economuse 2015-04-02
– Will the TPG-iiNet merger kill competition? (April) Economuse 2015-04-01
– Who should we fear most – Telstra or the NBN? (March) Economuse 2015-03-12
– Will net neutrality nuke the internet? (Feb) Economuse 2015-02-24
– Netflix – the elephant in the pay TV room (Jan) Economuse 2015-01-19
2014
– Act now – or the NBN will be a white elephant (Nov)
– The problems of transitional pricing (Oct)
– The 2014 review of retail broadband pricing (Sept)
– Vertigan’s cost benefit analysis – chickens, eggs and the ogre of mobile substitution (Sept)
– Hobson’s choice with NBN Co. pricing (Aug)
– Option 6: assessing the revenue impact of the “Traffic Model” (Aug)
– How long will MTAS be necessary? (Aug)
– Can we go faster and cheaper, please? (July)
– How low can you roam? (July)
– Data Roaming – Australians visiting New Zealand (July 2014)
– An introduction to utility pricing and how it should be applied to the NBN (June)
– Knotted in net neutrality (May)
– Fixed wireless, by-pass and affordability (May 2014)
– If you have to be dumb, don’t be stupid (April 2014)
– The NBN and infrastructure competition can be compatible (April 2014)
– Submission to Vertigan Panel (March 2014)
– Goldilocks pricing for broadband (May 2008)
2013
– Affordable retail pricing on the NBN (Nov 2013)
– Australian retail broadband – price competition has stalled (Sept 2013)
– Entry level pricing for the NBN (Aug 2013)
– CVCs – A final (?) word (July 2013)
– NBN demand forecasts (May 2013)
– NBN pricing discriminates against smaller players (May 2013)
– NBN ARPU and ICRA (April 2013)
– NBN internal rate of return (March 2013)
– NBN pricing discussion slides (Feb 2013)
– NBN pricing should be rejected (Dec 2012)
– EU Guidelines for Public Investment in Broadband (Oct 2012)
– EU Broadband Policy – A Different Path (Aug 2012)
– ICT Regulation Toolkit: Module 2 (Competition and Price Regulation) (2012)
– Netflix: Bandwidth and broadcasting headaches (Nov 2011)
– Digital Target benchmarking: Australia and Europe(Oct 2011)
– Smartphones – too smart for moble operators?(July 2011)
– Telework – An example of policy flying blind (July 2011)
– The Digital Economy and High Speed Broadband (30 June)
– Public versus private investment in broadband (SNG 31 May)
– Cross-Subsidy without Monopoly (AFR 27 April)
– Pricing can solve the capacity challenge, 19 April, 2011
– Build it and they will come – right?
– SNG presentation to ATUG on April 1, 2011
– Interview on SBS World News (20 December 2010)
– NBN Pricing (August 2010)
– Betting on broadband policy: Australia vs NZ (April 2010)
– Submission to the Senate Select Cttee on the NBN (April 2010)
– NBN – What went wrong and how can it be fixed? (March 2010)
– Access pricing – glide path or crash landing? (Dec 2009)
– OVUM NBN Summit (Dec 2009)
– Crossing Ford (Nov 2009)
– Broadband pricing to achieve net neutrality – Goldilocks revisited (July 2009)
– Funding broadband – Digital Britain’s idea (July 2009)
– Should HFC networks be rolled into the NBN? (June 2009)
– Broadband – Pricing for take-up (May 2009)
– Broadband – What is best for Australia and Telstra? (May 2009)
– Broadband – How big are the benefits? (April/May 2009)
– True Broadband (February 2009 with reply to Ramsay)
– Fixed Broadband is the Next Utility (September 2008)
– Cost Benefit Analysis of MNP in Bahrain (Public Version, August 2008)
– What drives broadband takeup? (May 2008)
– Broadband policy on track (May 2008)
– Unbundled local loop – Band 2 priced at half cost? (January 2008)
– A new costs model – anyone for TEA? (December 2007)
– TPRC Slides (September 2007)
– Anchor products for NGA (12 October 2007)
– Broadband Connect and OPEL – poor choices? (29 June 2007)
– AFR Opinion on ULL pricing (31 May 2007)
– The umpire’s decision – a bit average? (May 2007)
– NGN interconnection – when worlds collide (May 2007)
– ITU NGN interconnection (May 2007)
– OECD Catching-up in broadband – what will it take?(April 2007)
– TSA Broadband – Picking winners or corrrecting failures? (March 2007)
– TSA talk on broadband policy (February 2007)
– Catching-up in broadband – what will it take? (February 2007)
– TPA Part IIIA – what price access? (January 2007)
– Local broadband – a magic bullets solution? (December 2006)
– Telstra’s primed to deliver a truly converged network (9 October 2006)
– East or west – which is best? (October 2006)
– Broadband blueprint needs to address pricing (8 September 2006)
– Eye on the future – the third way (September 2006)
– Unifrom pricing – who will carry the CAN? (September 2006)
– Taking sides – net neutrality or not? (June 2006)
– The “ladder of investment” – is it wobbly? (May 2006)
– Big Pipes and Little Pipes – Why do they Matter? (April 2006)
– bigpipes (April 2006)
– Teleworking – it’s just a matter of trust! (March 2006)
– Broadband – How can we break the impasse? (March 2006)
– Wholesale Line Rental – Declaration too much too late? (Feb 2006)
– The US Free Trade Agreement – How constrained is telecoms regulation? (Feb 2006)
– Scrapping the CAN: Overseas approaches (Dec 2005)
– From scarcity to abundance – pricing (Nov 2005)
– Price Bundling in Australian Telecommunications (2004)
– DCITA Report on Internet Charging Arrangements (2004)
– Cable Competition – Who Fired the First Shot?(2004)
– Local Loop Competition – Where to now?(2004)
– Access Pricing – Time to Shift Gear (2004)
– Separation or Policy Segmentation?(2004)
– 3G – A million or bust? (2003)
– APEC Stocktake (2003)
– Adapting Competition Policy for Developing Countries (2002)