As the 2009 Parliamentary year concluded amidst a maelstrom of climate change debates and resulting political turmoil for the Liberal Party, key policy processes for the mobile sector remain in the wings, Chris Althaus, AMTA Chief Executive Officer says.

"In order to support the full flowering of innovation, and to keep the U.S. globally competitive, we will need to find ways to free up new spectrum to mobile broadband,” said US Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Julius Genachowski, said this week

A recent Federal Health Department audit of a mobile phone base stations at four sites has again found base station radio frequency (RF) emissions are clearly meeting Australia’s safety standards.

The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association has once again asked for a correction of misleading statements made by representatives of zoos about a mobile phone collection campaign to raise money to save gorilla habitat in the Congo.

The mobile telecommunications industry is disappointed that Tasmania has gone against the recent lead of Victoria and banned drivers in that state using phone-based GPS services.

The former head of the World Health Organisation’s EMF project has sought to reassure mobile phone users that their use of the device is “not associated with an increased risk of cancer” ahead of the anticipated release of INTERPHONE later this month.

A large new study is the latest to find no link between rising cellphone use and rates of brain cancer, USA Today reports.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority this week implemented a restructure that represents the latest step in its transformation process.

Attorney-General, Robert McClelland and the Victorian Police and Emergency Services Minister, Bob Cameron today launched the national telephone-based emergency warning system, ‘Emergency Alert’ at the Victorian State Control Centre.

Screen It 2009 Principal Sponsor, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, today participated in the presentation of awards to competition winners from primary and secondary schools around Australia, at a ceremony held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).