Lawyers in Australia’s telecommunications sector have admitted the pace of technological change driven by the public’s rampant adoption of new devices such as smartphones and tablets is leaving them and regulators playing perpetual catch-up.The outrage that greeted Optus’s introduction of a service to replay almost-live sports coverage on mobiles, despite Telstra having paid big money for exclusive live rights, was a fresh example of technology capability running rings around the current legal framework.To read this Australian Financial Review report in full, see:
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