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ATUG SME Breakfast

ATUG's SME Breakfast Series
ATUG’s SME Workshop Project is designed to engage with small business users of communications services through a series of workshops to be conducted in metropolitan areas in all States working with State Government and Industry partners. The workshops will be based on the experience ATUG developed in 2007 when a number of trial workshops were run with industry support. The workshops will include discussions on the use of communications for innovation, experiences with communications services any issues or concerns in accessing services or support arrangements.

ATUG’s SME project objectives include;
To identify issues of interest to small business users of communications services through workshop discussions with relevant stakeholders
To inform and educate small business users and their representative organisations about telecommunications issues, which may include (by way of example only) availability of services, applications of services, pricing, switching processes and service quality, e-security, complaint handling and escalation.
To represent the issues raised to the Government, regulators (the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)) and self-regulatory bodies in telecommunications.
To foster industry awareness of telecommunications issues of relevance to small business users
To ensure government and industry policy developments reflect issues of interest to small business

Dates and Venues

Date City Time City and Venue
12th August 2008 Brisbane 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am DLA Phillips Fox, Level 29, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
13th August 2008 Melbourne 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am The Naval and Military Club, 27 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
14th August 2008 Sydney 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am The Chatswood Club, 11 Help Street, Chatswood
26th August 2008 Perth 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am Department of Industry and Resources, 1 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth
3rd September 2008 Penrith 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am  
4th September 2008 Canberra 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am  
21st October 2008 Adelaide 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am  
28th October 2008 Wollongong 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am  
5th November 2008 Brisbane South 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am  
18th November 2008 Geelong 7:00am for 7:30 start to 9:30am  

Sponsors

About Primus Telecom
Primus Telecom Australia is one of Australia’s largest telecommunications carriers and has been providing a complete range of high quality telecommunications services to businesses and residential customers in since 1995. The current product range includes feature rich and highly reliable high speed broadband, data, Internet, and voice products. The Primus network provides nationwide coverage through its own backbone comprising of transmission and switching facilities in 66 points of interconnect and 230 DSLAM exchanges across Australia. The Primus network also includes local fibre network in the five major capital cities and delivers a range of business direct-connect services including ISDN, IP, ATM, Ethernet, high speed broadband as well as local, long distance and international telephone services.

About 3
3 is part of Hutchison Whampoa's global group of companies - one of Australia's biggest foreign investors, and an employer of over 230,000 people in 56 countries. Throughout the world, under the 3 brand, Hutchison Whampoa provides 3G services to over 17.6 million people in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK.

 

Last updated 28-Aug-2008

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