AMTA Snapshot Edition 60

AMTA members act within their rights on police charges Members of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) do not charge police for services in life-threatening situations and are entitled under the law to recover costs for non-life threatening requests from police for call records to assist criminal investigations, AMTA Chief Executive Officer, Chris Althaus, said today.

Access Economics to address AMTA Members Forum Access Economics will give a presentation at the next AMTA Members Forum in Sydney on Thursday, June 14. The presentation will give Members an insight into the preparation of an analysis of the benefits of the mobile telecommunications industry to the Australian economy.

Do Not Call registrations reach 200,000 More than two hundred thousand Australians have listed their phone numbers on the national Do Not Call Register in the 24 hours since it opened for pre-registrations yesterday. Registrations are expected to top 250,000 by the end of today.

New Legislation in Winter Session AMTA notes that the legislation schedule for the Winter sittings of Federal Parliament includes both the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill and the Communications Legislation Amendment (Content Services) Bill.

Bee behaviour not connected to mobiles - industry association The GSMA reports that research has indicated that radiation from mobile phones may be linked to the disappearance of colonies of bees in North America and Europe. Dr Jochen Kuhn of Koblenz-Landau University in Germany conducted a limited study which found bees would not return to a bee hive if a mobile phone was left next to the hive. Dr Kuhn said mobile phones could be a possible cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with bees’ ability to navigate interfered with by mobile phone radiation.

AMTA appoints policy manager AMTA has appointed a new policy manager to replace Peppi Wilson who is going on maternity leave in the first half of June 2007.

Mobile phone technology provides early warning of heart problems More than two-thirds of Australians would not call an ambulance if they thought they were having a heart attack. The findings, from research commissioned by the National Heart Foundation Australia, also reveal that many Australians do not know all the warning signs of a heart attack.