Snapshot Edition 76

AMTA calls for review of SIM-less 000 calls AMTA supports the Federal Government’s national awareness campaign to ensure 000 calls are made for genuine emergencies, Chief Executive Officer Chris Althaus told the ABC’s national radio network this week.

Mobile phone industry stands up against cyberbullying AMTA’s tips to assist the victims of bullying via mobiles phones were quoted at the weekend in the Courier Mail newspaper and will be used at an Anti-Bullying Forum in Canberra next month.

Mobile Carriers Forum and MobileMuster to showcase at Qld Local Government Conference With nearly 600 Council Mayors, elected Councillors and CEOs registered to attend, next week’s Queensland Local Government Association Annual Conference on the Gold Coast provides a significant opportunity for the mobile telecommunications industry to showcase its credentials.

“Mobile-ise”, take a stand for the environment and win free public transport People can help take a stand for a sustainable environment by recycling their unused mobile phones, batteries or accessories at Live Green at Victoria Park, Camperdown, tomorrow.

Keep Australia Beautiful Week starts on Monday On Monday, Keep Australia Beautiful is holding its national media launch of Keep Australia Beautiful Week (KAB Week) at Glebe Primary School, Sydney. Federal Environment and Water Resources Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, will launch KAB Week. Mobilemuster is one of the major sponsors of KAB Week where Australians are being asked to help the environment by starting at home by either recycling their old mobiles, refilling their printer cartridges, reducing litter or saving energy by switching to energy-saver globes.

Outstanding Australian mobile handset sales, says Gartner report Australian mobile handset sales outperformed other markets in the strong Asia/Pacific region, according to Gartner’s latest report on worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users in the second quarter of 2007.

NZ agrees to block mobiles in jails The New Zealand government has signed an agreement with the country's biggest phone companies to introduce mobile blocking technology into Kiwi prisons, ZDNet reports.

Be a carbon hero: use your mobile as a personal CO2 calculator A British student has invented a way for people to track their own carbon footprint through their mobile phone.