Triple Zero Legislative and Regulatory Review - Participate - Have Your Say - Closes 5pm 23 Jun 2026

The Triple-Zero Legislative and Regulatory Review is now open, please participate and have your say!

https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/have-your-say/triple-zero-legislative-and-regulatory-review

Petition Update: Telstra have apparently recently added the global/open support, however; are still applying a whitelist approach rather than a blacklist. What this means is that fully-compatible devices aren’t supported by default, so  they need to be added to a whitelist to be allowed to use the network rather than being blocked (blacklisted) if they’re not compatible. There are still many issues with this approach across the carriers, where full-compatible devices are being blocked but non-compatible (or partially-compatible) devices are being allowed to connect when they should actually be blocked - this has been evidenced through the emergency call failures leading to deaths...

(Optus and Vodafone added as Decision-Makers for this petition)

With the transition from 3G to 4G, too much is regulated via software rather than on hardware capabilities. Further to the inability to access VoLTE (4G Calling) with compatible devices, VoWiFi (WiFi Calling) is (and seems will remain) unsupported for fully-compatible devices that weren’t sold by the carriers.

This is all more than confusing, challenging and dangerous enough for Australian residents. I can’t imagine how it would be for tourists or immigrants, especially if their English isn’t strong - they’ll often have no choice other than to go into one of the carriers’ (or partners’) shops and buy a new phone.

Please sign and follow James’ petition and updates, and please submit complaints to the regulators under James’ advice there;

https://www.change.org/p/stop-telco-4g-5g-device-blocking-volte-restrictions-australia-s-3g-shutdown

Thank you to everyone that’s following and supporting James, and thank you especially to James himself!