AMTA Snapshot Edition 73

AMTA welcomes two new members AMTA is very pleased to announce that two new members – Nokia Siemens Networks and Crazy Johns – have joined the peak industry body for mobile telecommunications in Australia.

The MCF responds to the City of Unley’s Local Government Association motion Lower call charges, better coverage and continuing investment in competitive mobile telecommunications networks depend on the existing planning laws governing the construction of base stations, the Mobile Carriers Forum said in response to a Local Government motion calling for changes to planning laws.

TEC’s attack on Australia’s only industry-wide electronic product recycling program is misleading and misdirected The Recycling Manager of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), Rose Read, said the Total Environment Centre’s (TEC) extraordinary attack on the MobileMuster mobile phone recycling program was misdirected and misleading.

No grounds for Wi-Fi concerns, says ARPANSA A recent BBC investigation into the possible dangers of Wi-Fi radiation emissions in UK schools that aroused fear in sections of the British community is now raising similar concerns in Australia where uptake of wireless technology has been met with great gusto, Computerworld reports.

Mobilemuster explains mobile phone recycling to students Science in the City is Sydney's largest science event, culminating in National Science Week. It provides students with a fantastic opportunity to get involved in science and see the huge variety of career opportunities.

Myths linger around smoking and cell phones, Cancer Society survey finds. Misconceptions about cancer are rampant among Americans, a new study finds, including the mistaken notions that cancer deaths are on the rise and that air pollution is a greater cancer risk than smoking, HealthDay News reports in the United States.