The mobile telecommunications industry has grown rapidly in Australia since the first cellular network was launched in 1987. There are now more than 22 million mobile phone services in Australia.

Mobile telecommunications not only has a substantial impact on the economic bottom line by driving productivty through anywhere, anytime connectivity, it also has affects our everyday lives.

This gives rise to a welter of statistics to capture the impact of mobile phones: revenue growth; rise in mobile penetration; mobile shipment figures; impact on GDP; falling mobile telecommunications prices; industry revenue; how people use mobiles to balance their family and work.

AMTA tries to capture these statistics to measure and analyse the impact of the telecommunications industry on the broader Australian economy and society.