AMTA Snapshot Edition 83

Election Dynamics – Don’t forget the Senate Federal politics continues to be pre-occupied with pre-election manoeuvres. While speculation continues on the election date, the actual announcement is academic as the options have narrowed to late November (17 or 24) or early December (1 or 8).

No evidence of mobile phone brain cancer link There is no biological, medical, or statistical basis to assert a link between mobile phone use and brain cancer, AMTA Chief Executive Chris Althaus said in response to media reports earlier this week.

Qualcomm CEO to address AMTA lunch AMTA has pleasure in providing advance notice of a special opportunity to attend a business lunch with CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, Dr Paul E Jacobs.

AMTA targets education system. As convergence gathers pace the intersection of the education system, social networking and mobile services will provide an important opportunity for AMTA to provide advice and assistance where relevant to users and schools.

Premium Services Review Underway AMTA is currently working on a review taskforce looking at the Mobile Premium Services Industry (MPSI) scheme. At the request of Minister Coonan the industry is reviewing the scheme after its first year of operation.

The Australian Centre for RF Bioeffects Research (ACRBR) Science Week Program ACRBR is hosting a series of information and discussion sessions over three days aimed at sharing knowledge and expertise on health effects associated with human exposure to radio communications technology.

Mobilemuster participates in Waste 2007 conference Mobilemuster will be highlighting the resource recovery benefits of recycling mobile phones at next week’s Waste 2007 Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Conference in Coffs Harbour. The conference is the peak National Waste Management Conference for waste professionals from across Australia.

New Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman to address AMTA Members Forum The new Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman will speak at an AMTA Members’ Forum in Sydney on Thursday, October 18. Ms Deirdre O’Donnell will highlight complaint trends and significant issues to AMTA Members.

One billion sales in 2007 Global sales of mobile handsets continue to boom along with strong local results. Industry analyst, Gartner Inc., has noted strong growth in global handset sales with an increase of just over 17% in Q2 2007 compared to the same period last year.

Mobile retailers Spring Into Action for Mobilemuster this October For the month of October, Mobilemuster is offering prizes to all registered mobile phone retail stores that return collections.

Air transport body launches mobile check-in Airport queues could become a thing of the past under a new scheme for travellers to check in with mobile phones, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) .