This article revisits universal service in Australian telecommunications, a much-contested topic — not least with the looming Telstra full privatisation and the availability of broadband and mobile technologies. It discusses the main types of universal service strategies advanced in the contemporary debate, and develops a new proposal in which local and regional governments would play a central role.
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