The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), the peak industry body representing the mobile telecommunications industry, welcomes the opportunity to hear Dr Bernard Veyret, a Member of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), at next week’s SW2009 program to be held at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

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.

They look the same and work the same, but touch the wrong one and you could be slapped with demerit points and a hefty fine, the Sunday Mail in Adelaide reports.

Your mobile phone may soon be able to diagnose respiratory illnesses in seconds when you cough into it, the Telegraph in the UK reports.

More than 9 million new HSPA connections added every month; HSPA+ networks on the rise with all roads leading to LTE. The GSMA this week announced that the rate of growth of HSPA Mobile Broadband connections has increased by nearly two thirds in the last year, according to figures released by Wireless Intelligence.

The Rudd Government today welcomed a new framework to guide the delivery of communications services to Indigenous communities.

A red poppy holds a plethora of symbolism cradled in its petals and with Remembrance Day around the corner, wearing or – for the first time – downloading the flower pays tribute to the 102,000 Australian men and women who sacrificed their lives serving our country since World War I.

Communications Day reported this week that former federal communications minister Michael Lee will be heading the board of Communications Alliance to replace its retiring seven-year chair Neville Stevens. Effective from January 1, 2010, Lee’s appointment is expected to bring significant industry knowledge and leadership skills to the position. Lee was the last communications minister under the Paul Keating government that lost office in 1996.

The Victorian Government undertakes a number of programs to assist people with low incomes to improve their quality of life, including the Good Shepherd Buying Service, the Home Wise appliance and infrastructure grant and the Water Wise program