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AMTA Board’s round of engagements with key stakeholders The Board of AMTA met today with the Shadow Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, in Melbourne as part of its round of engagements with MPs, regulators and stakeholders to exchange views on industry-wide issues.

In flight mobile phone trial ready for takeoff AMTA is looking forward to a successful trial of in-flight use of mobile telecommunications, Chief Executive Officer, Chris Althaus, said this week.

People driving themselves to distraction with text messages Driving at Easter while sending and receiving text messages would be like driving blindfolded for 12 seconds of every 30-second text message on busy roads during the peak holiday period, AMTA said in an Easter road safety media release.

MobileMuster helps Keep Australia Beautiful MobileMuster, the mobile phone industry’s official mobile phone recycling program, will sponsor Keep Australia Beautiful Week and support its efforts to protect the environment and conserve natural resources.

Mobile TV, chat and blogging drive next gen revenue, says report Competition has become even more cutthroat among next gen mobile and wireless broadband service providers, says Infonetics Research in a new study about North American, European, and Asia Pacific operators. The study shows 65% of providers rating competition and customer retention as the most challenging of their business concerns, says a report in Cellular-News.

20% of mobile phones with Near Field Communication by 2012 Cellular-News reports that in its latest analysis of the Near Field Communication market, ABI Research forecasts that by 2012, some 292 million handsets - just over 20 percent of the global mobile handset market - will ship with built in NFC capabilities.