The Future of Australia's telecommunications sector
The Future of Australia's telecommunications sector
Michael Lester,  Paul Budde

The Future of Australia's telecommunications sector

While successfully rolling out 5G mobile wireless technology and achieving high rates of penetration and quality services for smartphones, telecom providers like Telstra have faced significant investments in infrastructure. At the same time, they have struggled to raise prices and maintain profitability, particularly in the face of the broadband network rollout (NBN), which has come at great taxpayer expense and performed poorly by international standards.

Michael Lester in conversation with Paul Budde, an international consultant on telecommunications and the digital economy, discuss how we arrived at this point, it’s implications for the digital transformation of our economy, and the future of telcos and the NBN.

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Michael Lester

Michael Lester is a public policy economist with a career in Commonwealth and State agencies, World Bank and OECD. His interests include innovation, environment, and governance. He presents programs on community radio.

Paul Budde

Paul Budde specialises in the strategic planning of government and business innovation and transformation around the digital, sharing and interconnected economy.

John Menadue

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