The mobile telecommunications industry is ready to invest in advanced mobile broadband technologies, however, it needs a clear timetable for clearance, auction and restacking of Ultra High Frequency (UHF) spectrum in the 694-820 MHz range, AMTA said in its submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s Digital Dividend Green Paper.

MobileMuster, the official recycling program of the mobile phone industry, is calling on local councils which have helped promote and collect mobile phones for recycling over the past year to enter the 2010 MobileMuster Local Government Awards.

To coincide with Earth Hour, Optus will be encouraging staff to get involved beyond switching off their lights for an hour this Saturday night by promoting a number of environmental initiatives next Tuesday 30th March.

Telstra, Optus and Google have urged the government to set a firm date for the sale of radio frequency spectrum that will be vacated in the switchover to digital television, the Australian reported this week.

Just a month after getting a $250 million licence fee rebate from the federal government, free-to-air television stations are again asking for a hand from taxpayers, Ari Sharp writes in yesterday’s The Age newspaper.

Communcations Day reports this week that smart grid strategies risk missing out on the spectrum they need to function fully unless energy industries -develop cohesive standards, Australian Communications and Media Authority chairman Chris Chapman has warned.

Mobile data surpassed voice on a global basis during December of 2009, Ericsson announced today at the CTIA Wireless 2010 convention in Las Vegas. This finding is based on Ericsson measurements from live networks covering all regions of the world.

There's no static in the message that executives of wireless phone companies want to convey at their annual CTIA Wireless convention, which opened in Las Vegas this week, USA Today reports.

Sprint Nextel Chief Executive Dan Hesse said that in about two years, monthly cellphone bills will focus on the amount of data used and move away from the number of available voice minutes, the CTIA Smart Brief quotes the Wall Street Journal this week.