AMTA Snapshot Edition Number 105

AMTA’s Technology Showcase at Parliament House in June AMTA will hold its Technology Showcase in Parliament House, Canberra, on Wednesday, June 25. Chief Executive Officer, Chris Althaus, said the Showcase would provide an opportunity for our industry to demonstrate its range of cutting-edge products and services to key decision makers and senior bureaucrats.

AMTA partners with peak parent body to promote school safety AMTA has entered a partnership with the Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO) to disseminate material to assist parents, teachers and students to access mobile telecommunications in a safe and responsible manner in the school environment.

Mobile key to next phase of social networking, says MySpace at AMTA Forum Mobile is a central element of the next phase of social networking and a major strategic focus of MySpace, Fox Interactive Media’s business development director, Nick Love, told AMTA’s Members’ Forum in Sydney last night.

Leading Australian expert hits back at neurosurgeon’s mobile safety claims One of Australia’s leading experts on mobile phone safety has issued a statement replying to recent claims made by a Canberra neurosurgeon, who asserted that mobile phones could be more dangerous than “asbestos or smoking”.

Mobile Carriers Forum focus on the West The MCF in WA has for a number years raised concern over the introduction of ‘buffer zones’ or specific development setback requirements for mobile phone towers through local authority town planning schemes and policies.

The caravan moves on as we become tribal digital nomads, so says the Economist Sometimes the biggest changes in society are the hardest to spot precisely because they are hiding in plain sight. So says the Economist in its latest special report on mobile telecommunications. “It could well be that way with wireless communications. Something that people think of as just another technology is beginning to show signs of changing lives, culture, politics, cities, jobs, even marriages dramatically. In particular, it will usher in a new version of a very old idea: nomadism.”

Hello, drink drivers take more risks The following letter to the editor from AMTA on driving was published in several Melbourne suburban newspapers today.

EU allows mobile phones on airplanes The European Union on Monday opened the way for air travelers to use mobile phones to talk, text or send e-mails on planes throughout Europe's airspace.