As chief executive of Ofcom, Richards has overseen the regulation of the TV and radio sectors, fixed-line telecoms, mobiles and postal services.
Ofcom has one of the widest remits of any UK regulator, overseeing broadcasting, fixed line and mobile telecommunications and postal services.
There have been a lot of attempts at building an email and/or mobile photo-to-postal mail solution, including SnailMailMyEmail, Postful, Hipster, Red Stamp, and new entry (and more direct competitor to Postagram) Postcardly, to name a few.
If no available mobile phone number: a postal reminder.
This latter strategy could be undertaken using postal, electronic or mobile phone text-based methods.
It suggests three possible voting mechanisms: mobile polling stations, internet voting and postal ballots.
Personal participant contact is difficult between follow-ups as there are no individual household postal services, nor standard mobile phone coverage in remote areas.
Postal and telecommunication stations, including mobile units, serve remote border areas and geological, hydrological, and construction teams.
In Australia, this is a particularly timely trial, given the recent establishment of the National Gestational Diabetes Register, the increasingly ubiquitous use of mobile phones, and the decreasing use of postal services ("snail mail") for communication.
Moreover, migrants are mobile population and it was difficult to identify their postal addresses.
A variety of contact methods will be provided; e-mail, study mobile number, landline with 24 hour answer machine and postal address.
