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AUSTRALIAN MINISTER URGES TELCO SECTOR TO WORK WITH GOVT.

AsiaPulse News, September, 2004

SYDNEY, Sept 21 Asia Pulse - Communications Minister Helen Coonan today urged Australia's mobile phone carriers to continue to work with the federal government as it seeks to regulate the fast changing industry.

As mobile phone technology moves into the third generation (3G), the government is looking at ways to prevent offensive material being sent to the phones of children.

Senator Coonan told delegates at the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association's (AMTA) annual congress in Sydney that policing content sent to phones was potentially more difficult than to children's computers due to the inherent mobility of the technology.

She said public discussion on the topic was currently ongoing, ahead of a white paper.

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