AMTA Snapshot Edition 49

AMTA provides comprehensive response to local council on mobile base stations The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association wrote this week to the Moreland City Council in Melbourne to address its concerns about the safety of mobile telecommunication base stations and its call for all base stations to be classified as “high impact” and subject to local planning permit processes.

Latest Interception Legislation Considered AMTA and other industry organisations such as Communications Alliance and IIA have met with officials from the Attorney General’s Department to discuss the latest tranche of legislation to impact on telecommunications interception and access.

AMTA’s bullying tips featured in Child Safety Handbook AMTA’s tips on how to deal with bullying will be featured in a new child safety handbook, which will have 300,000 copies distributed to primary school students, parents and teachers throughout Australia.

Handset shipments off to a flying start in 2007 Mobile phone handset shipments to Australia are off to a flying start in 2007 with the release of new industry figures showing there were a total of 481,936 handsets shipped in January.

Getting in the swing for MobileMuster Former Australian cricketer, Damien Fleming, will be able to pass on some tips on the subtleties of bowling an in-swinger when he lines up this weekend at Bankstown Shopping Centre to target mobile phone recycling.

Get in early and save for the Mobile Content Australia Conference 2007 The early bird catches the worm, so they say. And so it is with the second annual Mobile Content Australia Summit 2007. Hurry to register and qualify for substantial discounts for this conference, which will be chaired by AMTA Chief Executive Officer, Chris Althaus.

AMTA Board Members and Committee Chairs help to chart our course To ensure that AMTA is prepared to meet the needs of its members, a planning day was held in Sydney this week to update the three-year strategic plan.