AMTA Members and guests will have an opportunity to hear the head of the new peak consumers’ organisation and the retiring Ombudsman at a Members Forum in Sydney on November 26.

The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) welcomes the announcement by State and Federal Environment Ministers of a new National Waste Policy and product stewardship framework.

The MCF has written to the Tasmanian Government identifying potential lost opportunities in its draft State Planning Directive to fast-track approval of certain types of mobile network telecommunications facilities that have a negligible impact, and are exempt from approval in other States.

MobileMuster is issuing a challenge to all Australians to take their old and broken mobile phones out of the drawer and recycle them for National Recycling Week, which runs November 9-15.

The Rudd Government will host a major forum to explore Australia’s potential in the digital economy. The Realising Our Broadband Future forum will be held in Sydney on December 10 and 11, 2009.

New Victorian road rules requiring drivers to use mobile phone handsets in approved cradles come into effect next week.

ACCAN this week welcomed five new members to its Board. Professor Michael Fraser, Dr Ross Kelso, Ms Heron Loban, Ms Kate Locke and Ms Su Robertson were elected at ACCAN’s Annual General Meeting.

Microwave News reports British newspaper the Daily Telegraph used material from its website to publish an alleged exclusive report that cell phone use increases the risk of developing a brain tumour.

Seven top road safety experts have been appointed to the recently established National Road Safety Council, underscoring the Rudd Labor Government’s efforts to bring a national focus to the major social problem of road trauma, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Anthony Albanese, announced today