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Pre-paids protect young people from running up debts AMTA CEO Chris Althaus told ABC TV that the mobile phone industry is concerned about the issue of youth debt. “We believe the number of people affected is relatively small, however, the industry takes the issue seriously. It is in no-one’s interests - including mobile phone companies – to have young people in debt.”

Action agenda on digital content industry plan Australia’s digital content industry has a vision to double its production over the next 10 years. The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, and the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, Ian Macfarlane, this week welcomed the start of a series of national industry forums which will examine strategies to harness the potential of the rapidly expanding digital content and creative industries.

Telstra staff round up over 1000 mobiles on World Environment Day Telstra staff, family and friends helped celebrate World Environment Day this week by cleaning out their drawers and handing in over 1000 phones at the six Mobilemuster drop off points located in the foyers of Telstra’s Melbourne and Sydney corporate offices.

Get out your lasso, chaps and phone: it's the AAPT Mobile Muster AAPT is running its vey own internal MobileMuster. The company has encouraged staff to stop hoarding those excess mobile phones and round 'em up for the AAPT Muster. The Muster is taking place across all AAPT sites today, Friday 9 June. Being environmentally astute the AAPT team has decided to round up their old mobiles and send them on to become new products like batteries, stainless steel products, plastic fence posts, pallets and jewellery. The team feels it’s kind of like reincarnation for phones. They have even identified a new condition, EMPH: Excess Mobile Phone Hoarding , which they hope to stamp out company wide.

Swiss study finds no health effects from mobile phone base stations A new Swiss study found no link between radiofrequency and adverse health effects under given exposure conditions. The study is consistent with the overall body of scientific evidence and the WHO position of no established adverse effects from mobile radio signal.

Parents positive towards children having mobile phones Recent research conducted in Great Britain found that parents of children aged between eight and sixteen believed the overall advantages of children using mobiles phone outweighed the disadvantages. Parents saw the main benefits of children aged eight and up of owning mobile phones were making sure children are safe at any time and children being able to contact their family.

Be on the lookout for spam and scam AMTA CEO Chris Althaus responded to concerns from listeners to a Canberra radio station about scam messages on mobile phones. Listeners to MIX 106.3 called in yesterday about messages left on their mobile phones asking them to call a number to collect prizes. Mr Althaus said it was important that people protected themselves against mobile spam and scam. He said mobile phone users should check how much it costs before dialling a premium voice number (190x) or using a premium text (19x) number, particularly if it was in response to an unsolicited voice call or text message.

What is 3G? MPs will find out next week A recent Phonechoice quick poll found that 13% of respondents had 3G and they loved it, 17% were planning to switch to 3G and 46% asked: “What is 3G?”. The nation’s elected representatives will next week have an opportunity to find out firsthand about what 3G has to offer at AMTA’s Technology Showcase at Parliament House, Canberra, next Wednesday.