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Peter Cox BEc MBA is the foremost independent economist, analyst and public speaker on the communications and media industries in Australia. He has been a leading consultant to Australian and overseas operators, technology suppliers, bankers, stockbrokers, the Senate and the Government for over thirty years. Peter has been invited to be chairman and speaker at over 60 industry conferences, written numerous papers and been featured in hundreds of radio, television and newspaper interviews. Call to get Peter's advice on the media industry in Australia or to speak at your next conference or seminar,
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COX MEDIA INSIGHTS - Latest Stories
Australian Newspapers wake up call
[MEDIA FINANCE]
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 03:02 PM
Peter Cox writes for the Business Spectator "Rupert Murdoch finally made the clarion call for the whole newspaper industry when he said the current model for newspapers is malfunctioning and that News Corp had to lead the way and charge for accessing content."  Read more
Debunking NBN Myths
[NBN]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 01:55 AM
Crikey last week published an article by Laureate Professor Rod Tucker at the University of Melbourne debunking some myths concerning the practicality of wireless and hybrid fibre coax networks (HFC) to provide the same capabilities as FTTP as proposed by the Government.
C-COR Broadband’s Dermot Cox wrote a response highly personally critical of Professor Tucker and accusing him of bias and supporting cable broadband operators without pointing out that C-COR is a cable network supplier.
As this is a highly technical area I asked George Green, an international broadband expert based in Hong Kong and technical adviser to CoxMedia, to write an explanation of the technologies involved. Green is an expert on last mile technologies for broadband networks across the entire Asia Pacific region including broadband modems, Fiber-to-the Home (FTTH) solutions, wireless gateways and Ethernet and DSL MPEG 4 Set Tops.
The paper has been written for the technically interested layman as well as the technology experts.
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Rudd's NBN - The Big Picture
[MEDIA POLICY]
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 02:07 PM
The announcement by the Prime Minister of the new National Broadband Network and much of the reaction to it has demonstrated a lack of understanding of ‘The Big Picture’ by many parties and perhaps not even a full appreciation by the PM himself. Read more
Rudd’s leap of faith
[MEDIA POLICY]
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 01:24 AM
Cox Media believed that the parties that tendered for the NBN were unlikely to have the ability to fund the national roll out and that the Australian Government would completely finance the roll out of a National Broadband Network Read more
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Media Watch - Future of TV
Telstra's mobile TV service put under the spotlight
