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This article reports that Australian government is preparing to relax cross-media ownership laws so that proprietors can control a television station and a newspaper in the same city. By December 2004, 84% of the nation's 20 million residents owned cell phones, translating to a handset for every person save for the very young and very old, and even those groups are starting to come around. Given such promising figures, the Aussie entertainment industry is watching with intense interest as the nation's telecommunications carriers make increasingly noisy moves toward distributing television and movie content as free-to-air networks and subscription TV platforms have for decades. Mark Higgins, an analyst at management-consulting firm A.T. Kearney Inc., said that the telecom industry is coming to grips with the fact that many services from which it traditionally has profited, including fixed-price telephony and Internet access, are beginning to plateau or on a downward trend. INSETS: Conventional wisdom;Under exposure. |
