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Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The ACCC’s proposed telecom ledger stops at the bill
Australia’s competition regulator wants specified providers to connect retail service records with plans, locations and switching history. The design could make billed prices easier to compare, but it would record what appeared on bills—not verify what customers ultimately paid.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
APRA Floats a 20–30% Ceiling for Concentrated Super Investments
Australia’s prudential regulator wants superannuation trustees to decide which investment options create a concentration risk and to limit how much an individual member can put into them. The proposed ceiling is still a consultation position; members would continue to carry…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
India’s telecom licence migration has a one-way credit ledger
India’s new authorisation regime offers existing licence holders a route into the Telecommunications Act, 2023. Its migration arithmetic is asymmetric: shortfalls in legacy fees and guarantees must be supplied, but excess balances are not refunded or reduced, while specified…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
NSW’s Lobbying Reforms Put Two Regulator Models in Play
A government package would keep the NSW Electoral Commission at the centre of oversight, while a private member bill proposes a new Lobbying and Integrity Commission. Their different scopes make institutional design—not the shared promise of stronger scrutiny—the decisive…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Tasmania’s New Child Commission Keeps Regulator Powers in a Separate Legal Role
The 8 October launch brought children’s-rights advocacy and safety oversight under one agency, while statutes preserve the Regulator’s independent decision-making and leave a possible combined office uncommenced.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
WorldLink's IPv6 milestone makes traffic the real test
WorldLink reports that about 70% of its traffic uses IPv6. The share says more than an enabled-subscriber count, but no published denominator or observation window makes it a comparable performance score.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Sri Lanka’s mobile market must count switches, not SIMs
Sri Lanka reported 135.5 mobile subscriptions for every 100 residents at the end of 2025. That ratio signals widespread multi-SIM use, not proof that customers can readily move between providers. TRCSL’s draft retail and wholesale remedies now face a more useful test: do people…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
New Zealand’s telecom rule shift bets on tower sharing
New Zealand’s amended standards make more low-impact telecom construction possible without site-by-site consent. Their projected savings from fewer poles depend on operators choosing to share infrastructure, while councils take on more compliance monitoring.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Australia’s proposed power-contract mechanism needs a credible exit test
Australia’s draft Electricity Services Entry Mechanism would turn long-range reliability and emissions goals into contracts whose costs flow through the National Electricity Market. The design question is not only how to finance new supply, but what evidence would let the…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
What a 115% Ratio in Australia’s Telco Data Really Measures
A regulator’s comparison of TIO referrals with provider complaints can exceed 100 per cent. That does not mean more than every customer escalated; it means the two published complaint counts are not a matched customer cohort.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The NBN’s affordability test runs on two clocks
The ACCC has paired a 25/10 Mbps entry-level offer for 2027 with a CPI-linked wholesale price ceiling and a later test for cost recovery. The decision makes the evidence behind network investment as consequential as the headline speed.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australia’s telco draft ties sales bonuses to consumer safeguards
ACMA’s consultation draft would cap annual sales bonuses at 20% of base salary and limit sales volume to 30% of bonus eligibility. The larger change is institutional: the regulator wants the incentive formula itself to become part of an enforceable consumer-protection system.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Australia's Telco Code Is Moving Toward a Regulator-Written Standard
ACMA has opened consultation on a draft that would replace the industry-developed 2019 consumer code with a directly enforceable standard. The proposal would move rulemaking closer to the regulator and put named executives, records and sales incentives inside the compliance…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
AEMO’s draft separates seeing flexible demand from dispatching it
AEMO’s consultation proposes graduated ways to observe price-responsive resources, with more formal participation only if evidence shows that visibility alone is not enough. The distinction matters because forecasting a response can itself alter the price signal that prompts it.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
New Zealand’s Porting Draft Makes Fraud Holds Accountable to a Clock
The Commerce Commission’s draft would let providers pause a mobile-number transfer when fraud is credibly suspected. It also asks the pause to carry evidence, a review schedule, customer notice and an end condition.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Singapore sees enough AI compute now, but not a forecast
Two parliamentary replies separate today's market signal from tomorrow's infrastructure plan: industry feedback points to adequate supply now, while future compute demand remains difficult to project.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
India’s call-fraud fight reaches the network border
India has offered to join a proposed ITU trial on caller-line authentication. The hard test is whether a number claim survives a call’s passage through several countries and operators.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
New Zealand’s RANCo review tests who controls mobile-network investment
2degrees and One NZ say a shared radio network can release money for better coverage and service while leaving the two operators to compete. New Zealand’s Commerce Commission is now asking where that separation holds in practice: at the shopfront, or also in the decisions that…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
TRAI’s property rating makes indoor connectivity visible—but not representative
TRAI’s new public platform turns a building’s digital infrastructure into something a tenant or buyer can inspect before signing. Because the rating is voluntary—and property managers can audit and improve a building before seeking a public score—the resulting list says something…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telkom Says InfraNexia Has 90% of Its Network Assets. What Customers Need Next
Telkom said its 30 September deed had consolidated more than 90% of its network infrastructure assets at PT Telkom Infrastruktur Indonesia (TIF), which operates as InfraNexia. Its August plan defines a separate legal effective date and says customer contracts in scope move with…