Category Archives: Communications Compliance Ltd

Still not registered with CommCom? Time to get on board

Posted on 28 June 2013 by Peter Moon

As it considers what to do with telcos that failed to lodge their 2013 TCP Code compliance documents, ACMA is very keen to be assured that providers have registered with Communications Compliance, the Code monitor that’s nicknamed CommCom. Its approach … Continue reading →

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CommCom allows grace period for compliance lodgements

Posted on 21 March 2013 by Peter Moon

Communications Compliance Ltd, the TCP Code monitor, has announced a grace period for online lodgement of mandatory annual compliance documents by telcos.  The due date of 1 April will be extended to 14 April. This looks like a CommCom initiative … Continue reading →

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ACMA explains why Communications Compliance matters

Posted on 17 March 2013 by Peter Moon

The Australian Communications and Media Authority describes new Code monitor Communications Compliance as the industry’s way to ‘demonstrate its compliance with the TCP Code’ and warns that ‘ACMA will use its investigation and enforcement powers if participants do not comply … Continue reading →

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Have you received your Comms Compliance welcome letter?

Posted on 18 February 2013 by Peter Moon

By now, every telco that is subject to the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code should have received a ‘welcome letter’ from the new Code monitor Communications Compliance Limited. If yours hasn’t yet arrived, TCPCode com.au suggests that you contact Comms Compliance … Continue reading →

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Communications Compliance website goes live

Posted on 13 February 2013 by Peter Moon

Communications Compliance, the new TCP Code monitor, has gone live on the web. The newly launched site contains background material about CommCom (as it’s coming to be known) and its personnel, the TCP Code itself and the documents telcos will … Continue reading →

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TCP Code enforcement: CommCom, ACMA detail timelines

Posted on 11 February 2013 by Peter Moon

The TCP Code calls on Code compliance monitor Communications Compliance to establish TCP Code enforcement arrangements for cooperation with other compliance stakeholders, including ACMA,  Last week, CommCom and ACMA exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding that describes how the two organisations … Continue reading →

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Half-time in the compliance ballgame

Posted on 21 December 2012 by Peter Moon

The new TCP Code came into force on 1 September 2012, and requires telcos to lodge a written compliance statement by 1 April 2013. That means we’re just past the half way mark towards that deadline. How’s the Code, and … Continue reading →

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Exactly what is “Communications Compliance Limited”?

Posted on 4 December 2012 by Peter Moon

Communications Compliance Limited is a newly created regulatory body, responsible for systematically monitoring that telcos are complying with the 2012 Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code. TCPCode.com.au asks, and answers, 13 questions about the new authority that will figure prominently in the … Continue reading →

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Communications Compliance switches on regulatory radar

Posted on 30 October 2012 by Peter Moon

Just four days after the TCP Code's Unit Pricing Rules kicked into force, Communications Compliance has alerted a number of telcos to compliance issues. If anyone was wondering whether the new regulator has switched on its regulatory radar yet, we … Continue reading →

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Comms Compliance appoints Executive Director

Posted on 27 September 2012 by Peter Moon

TCP Code compliance watchdog Communications Compliance has appointed Christiane Gillespie-Jones to the key role of Executive Director. As Communications Alliance’s Manager of Policy and Regulation, Gillespie-Jones was closely involved with the process that produced the new Code, and is well … Continue reading →

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