The mobile telecommunications industry has been reassured that the Federal Government is working to its timetable on announcing arrangements for the reissue of existing spectrum allocations, including those covered by 15-year licences.

Forest Hill Public School, near Wagga Wagga, NSW, will be presented with the National Champion Schools Recycling Award on Tuesday for collecting the most mobile phones as part of the MobileMuster’s “I can do that” schools recycling challenge.

The Tasmanian government has flagged consideration of a total ban on drivers using mobile phones in that State, claiming that the use of hands-free mobiles is as dangerous as “driving while drunk”.

Australian mobile carriers have rejected newspaper claims that customers are paying the “highest prices in the world for text messages”.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is well advanced in its review of the regulation of mobile phone jammers in Australia. As part of that review, the ACMA is also seeking views on a proposal to trial mobile phone jammers at the Lithgow Correctional Centre in NSW.

Turning the music up loud and placing the handset next to the speakers when a telemarketer calls, or ‘having an argument with them when they don’t understand the word "NO," ’ is now a thing of the past for Jeanette Benz from Wodonga.

Expectant mothers are getting a new tool to help keep themselves and their babies healthy: pregnancy tips sent directly to their cell phones, says the Associated Press on this week’s CTIA Smartbrief.