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Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association
Friday, March 12, 2010
AMTA Snapshot Edition 195

Mobile industry’s measures cut non-genuine Triple Zero (000) emergency calls by 3 million

Chris Althaus 2008 Australian mobile telecommunications industry measures to tackle the high level of non-genuine Triple Zero (000) emergency calls have reduced potentially life-threatening non-genuine calls by 25% or 3 million calls annually, says the Chief Executive of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), Chris Althaus.

Evidence on mobiles and brain tumours is “not at all strong”, says expert

Australia's foremost cancer expert in mobile phone research said evidence "is not at all strong" that using a mobile phone increases the risk of developing brain tumours, ninemsn reports this week.

Continuing competition drives mobiles sector, however, spectrum limits pose growth barriers

Competition in the mobile phone sector has continued to emerge over the past year, says the Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Graeme Samuel, at the 2010 ATUG Annual Conference in Sydney today.

March has been set aside for House cleaning in the national capital

Parliament House has joined MobileMuster, to help round-up and recycle old mobile phones, batteries, chargers and accessories during this month.

Surfers busting their best at Bondi

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.

Maine panel rejects cell phone warnings proposal

legislative committee rejected a proposal Tuesday that would require health warnings on cellular phones in Maine in the United States, meaning the proposal is all but doomed for this year, Associated Press reports this week.

Developing countries have a thing or two to show the rest of us about mobiles and e-health

E-health can be as complicated as a national database of medical records or as simple as a daily text message reminding you to take your medicine.

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