The NBN project is a major component of Australia’s digital economy in close partnership with the latest generation mobile telecommunications networks and applications, AMTA Chief Executive, Chris Althaus, told the Federal Government’s “Realising our Broadband Future” Conference in Sydney this week.

Last month more than 1 million mobile phone handsets were shipped to Australia – the first time this year that shipments have topped the million mark, according to industry figures.

New Tasmanian road rules banning drivers from using mobile phones for navigation services are inconsistent in their treatment of GPS devices, says the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA).

The mobile phone industry has questioned the logic of a recent decision to ban the use of smartphones for GPS while driving in Tasmania and South Australia, PC Authority writes this week.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority this week released a discussion paper containing proposals for the establishment of radiocommunications licensing arrangements for in-flight mobile communication on aircraft.

Australians may soon be making mobile phone calls and sending text messages while flying on domestic aircraft, MX newspaper said this week.

ACCAN’s new a chair, Sue Salthouse, was elected to the position at a recent ACCAN board meeting at which Kate Locke was elected Deputy Chair, Len Bytheway, Treasurer, and Nan Bosler, Secretary.

Rodney Croft is ACRBR executive director and professor of health psychology at Wollongong University. This week his response to a letter from Vini Khurana , a staff specialist neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital and associate professor of neurosurgeov at the Australian National Universitv, was published in the Australian newspaper.