AMTA Chief Executive Officer, Chris Althaus, said the maximum value of the digital dividend would be achieved when the full 126 MHz was used to deliver mobile telephony and broadband services in Australia.

Australians, according to figures released last month by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, pay 8.6 cents on average for each text message, not 25 cents as claimed by Today Tonight.

In an ongoing commitment to better waste management and resource recovery, the Australian Parliament has joined MobileMuster and will be calling on members and parliamentary staff to round up and hand in their old mobiles including batteries, chargers and accessories during the current sitting periods.

Retailers are banning mobile phones in a crackdown on bad-mannered, loud-talking customers, says the Herald Sun.

The world faces being swamped with a tidal wave of electronic waste as sales of household gadgets boom over the next decade, according to a United Nations report, says the Press Association.

The cellphone market will rebound more strongly than expected this year as improving economies boost spending on new gadgets and handset vendors push cheap smartphones, research firm Gartner said this week reported by Reuters.

Ovum estimates that by 2014, China fixed broadband connections will grow to 174 million, while total broadband connections (including mobile broadband) will exceed 551 million. Bundled offers, the emergence of mobile broadband and the increasing entry of cable operators into the broadband market are boosting competitive pressure.

ACCAN, the national peak communications consumer organisation has called for the immediate introduction of legislation to remove the re-registration requirements of the Do Not Call Register after a senate committee today lent its support to the reform.

An NRMA Insurance road test has exposed the true dangers of texting while driving showing when drivers were challenged to do both, they spent almost 70 per cent of the trip glancing at their phone - greatly increasing the chance of a collision.