Henry Calvert (Optus) is the new Chair of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), the peak industry body representing the mobile telecommunications industry.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, this week announced at AMTA’s Members Forum in Sydney the Australian Government’s approach to the reissue of current 15-year radio frequency spectrum licences.

The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association has welcomed the release of the Federal Government’s approach to the to reissue of current 15-yeaer radio frequency spectrum licences at an AMTA Members Forum in Sydney on Thursday.

Australian mobile players are celebrating heightened spectrum certainty following new federal government plans for reissuing 15-year spectrum licences to carriers serving ‘significant numbers’ of consumers, says Communications Day’s Petroc Wilton.

AMTA CEO Chris Althaus told today’s ACMA Spectrum Tune Up Conference that re-planning 2.5GHz to allocate 140MHz for use by the mobile sector was a central part of industry’s forward planning on spectrum access.

World class surfers Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow and Owen Wright will be busting out their best moves for the Boost Mobile SurfSho presented by Samsung, taking place on Bondi Beach from the 12th to the 14th of March 2010.

The mobile phone industry is talking down the price to be paid for premium spectrum space soon to become available, warning a high price would starve telcos of funds to bring new services online, the Age published earlier this week.

Ignoring the health risks of heavy cell phone use invites a cancer epidemic, supporters of a bill requiring manufacturers to put labels on mobile phones and packaging said this week in US State of Maine, reports Associated Press.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center says it has created an app doctors can use to receive important patient data via their smartphones. In addition, the health care organization has completed a proof-of-concept of a technology platform that helps doctors and patients share information, the CTIA Brief reports this week..