Tag Archives: communications compliance

Still not registered with CommCom? Time to get on board

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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No, the TCP Code 2012 isn’t ‘finished’

A telco executive remarked to us this week that she was ‘glad that the TCP Code is finished.’  We know what she meant:  the race to the line to get a 2013 Attestation Statement was over.  But the Code goes … Continue reading

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CommCom allows grace period for compliance lodgements

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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Compliance Attestation: 14 working days to go

21 March 2013:  Just 14 working days before telcos must file their first TCP Code Compliance Attestation.  If you think you’re now fully compliant with TCP Code requirements, why not complete your Customer Information Compliance Statement right now, so you … Continue reading

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Exactly what is “Communications Compliance Limited”?

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

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

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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Cooper Mills releases Chapter 9 Checklist

Chapter 9 of the TCP Code is all new.  It creates the Code compliance and monitoring framework that is intended to give the 2012 Code the teeth that the 2007 edition lacked.  It’s also the Chapter that mandates a Compliance … Continue reading

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Welcome to TCPCode.com.au

After a couple of years of gestation, a new Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code is just around the corner.  As at 1011 July 2012, think ‘dayshours’ not ‘weeksdays’. Make no mistake, this Code will make a big difference to the way … Continue reading

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