AMTA’s consumer tips “Mind your mobile data spend” have been highlighted in the latest Choice article on “smartphones”, which gives consumer advice on choosing a handset that suits their needs and how to avoid running up big bills with data downloads.

Mobile phone handset shipments to Australia in January 2010 were 9% lower than the same period in 2009, according to the latest official industry figures.

The best place to build base stations and minimise emissions is closest to where those services are required, the Mobile Carriers Forum, a division of AMTA, has told readers of the Illawarra Mercury newspaper.

If wireless operators thought they'd faced a deluge of data thought they'd faced a deluge of data traffic from the iPhone, they haven't seen anything yet, according to a survey from network equipment giant Cisco Systems.

Australians are increasingly turning to wireless services to get their broadband internet -- just as the government embarks on a $43 billion plan to deliver the web through a network of cables and wires, the Australian newspaper reports today.

Now in its eleventh year, Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival showcases a huge range of exhibitors, talks, workshops, art, films and performances celebrating and inspiring sustainable communities.

Almost nobody thinks that driving while absorbed in talking or texting on a mobile phone is a good idea. Even people who do it know better. But preventing people from doing it may not be easy, the Wall Street Journal reported recently.