http://www.coxmedia.com.au/ Cox Media Insights provides expert analysis of the major issues in the media and communications industries. Contributions to all articles and stories are welcomed, just hit on 'comments' underneath the stories and articles and have your say. en-us http://www.coxmedia.com.au/ N/A Sun, 29 May 2011 17:20:11 EST 20 http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/121/top_ten_myths_behind_fibre_policy_by_peter_j._cox.html I had hoped that the decision by the independents to determine which party formed the government would not be based on the respective NBN policies of the two major parties as the debate is based on a number of false assumptions. As a result I had refrained from publishing my analysis during the election period to avoid it being viewed as politically motivated as I believe broadband policy should be determined by what is in the best interests of all Australians, not on political point scoring. However, the claimed statement by key independent Tony Windsor following a meeting with the Department of Broadband that he had been convinced “You do it once, you do it right, you do it with fibre” prompted me to publish. On what basis could the Department be giving such advice as there is no international evidence to support such a contention and the US and the UK for example do not have such a policy? Further the communications Minister Stephen Conroy told Sky News “that if you want to give people equivalence in regional and rural Australia, you need the technology that can deliver…that is clearly a fibre-based broadband network”. All broadband will be fibre based but if the Minister means that fibre should be provided to 93% of Australian homes where is the technical or economic evidence to support such a contention. Other countries have a universal broadband service plan without building fibre to nearly all homes. In my paper I examine within an international context the myths perpetrated for providing fibre to the home and why no major economy is proposing such expensive government expenditure. Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/119/peter_cox_interviewed_on_twisted_wire.html Who will be the content king? Phil Dobbie the host of Twisted Wire writes "Right now, all over the world, a battle is being fought. Everyone knows that we will soon be watching a significant amount of IPTV, but who will profit from this shift? Existing TV companies have agreements in place with the content providers, but internet service providers have a strong relationship with the end user." Listen to the interview http://www.zdnet.com.au/blogs/twisted-wire/ Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:28:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/120/peter_cox_on_the_world_cup_-_frank_sack_the_coach.html Peter was interviewed after Australia's loss to Germany in the World Cup on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald giving "some passionate advice to the boss of Football Federation Australia boss Frank Lowy". June 15, 2010 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:49:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/118/interviews_by_peter_cox.html In the first six weeks of 2010 Peter Cox has been interviewed on at least 15 occasions for radio and newspapers including various ABC programs, the Australian, SMH, The Financial Review and Beijing Radio. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:47:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/117/peter_cox_lectures_on_social_networking.html Peter Cox has recently chaired two conferences in Canberra on utilising social networks as a core strategy for enhanced communications and how government communications executives can influence and communicate with the public through social networks. Peter was the keynote speaker and had a number of leading experts in social networking speak to the conferences including the CEO of Facebook in Australia. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:39:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/116/ratings_hit_for_nine_television_network.html The reunion episode of a television program that ran for 28 years on Nine but has been off air for ten years has been a huge success and may start a come back for Nine to its glory days. Peter Cox looks at the Hey Hey its Saturday Reunion and what it means for its host, production company and the Nine Network. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:15:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/115/beyond_beijing_interview.html Peter Cox is regularly interviewed on media all over Australia but recently he had the unusual experience of being interviewed for an hour on China radio International (CRI). It is the only overseas broadcaster in the People's Republic of China. CRI was founded on December 3, 1941 and is owned and operated by the state. CRI is one of the "three central media organizations in China" along with China National Radio (CNR) and China Central Television (CCTV). Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:36:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/114/the_news_cycle_dooms_newspapers.html One of the major factors threatening the survival of newspapers is that technology has critically altered the news cycle. Peter Cox explains the modern news cycle. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:27:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/113/australian_newspapers_wake_up_call.html 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." Wed, 20 May 2009 15:02:00 EST http://www.coxmedia.com.au/articles/112/debunking_nbn_myths.html 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. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:55:00 EST