{"id":37939,"date":"2026-03-13T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37939"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:21:52","slug":"acma-asleep-at-the-wheel-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/acma-asleep-at-the-wheel-again\/","title":{"rendered":"ACMA asleep at the wheel. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for communications and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Triple 0 service outage:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe evidence that the committee has heard from the ACMA today is disturbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis regulator has proven time and time again that they are asleep at the wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite being informed by ambulance services immediately after the fact, the regulator failed to ask TPG about the death of a customer who couldn&#8217;t access Triple 0 services, and allowed the telco months to publicly verify this incident. This is astounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe relationship between the corporations and the regulator ACMA is far too cosy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fact that nobody &#8211; from the regulator, to the department, to the Minister\u2019s office &#8211; was willing to front up to the Australian people and tell them that another person had died says a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cACMA are the regulator. Their job is to ensure these telecommunications companies are delivering services properly. Time and again, they prove that they\u2019re just not up to the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cAustralians are being let down by a regulator that is more of a lapdog than a watchdog &#8211; meanwhile a handful of big corporations are getting away with poor service and self regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for communications and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Triple 0 service outage: \u201cThe evidence that the committee has heard from the ACMA today is disturbing. \u201cThis regulator has proven time and time again that they are asleep at the wheel. \u201cDespite being informed by ambulance services immediately after the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/acma-asleep-at-the-wheel-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACMA asleep at the wheel. Again.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37940,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions\/37940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}