The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) welcomes the Federal Government’s decision to maximise national economic benefits by allocating 126 MHz of broadcasting spectrum as the Digital Dividend.

Two new reports highlight the rapidly growing importance of mobile broadband in boosting Australia’s productivity and warn that future economic benefits would be reduced if the mobile telecommunications industry is not allocated sufficient spectrum in appropriate bands.

The mobile telecommunications industry welcomes today’s release of the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s paper on capped mobile plans, which finds a high level of customer satisfaction and awareness of what is included in capped plans.

The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) welcomes the release of the INTERPHONE study, which finds no increased risk of brain cancer from mobile phone use.

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.

There are nearly 2.5 million more mobile phones in service in Australia than people, according to the latest official telecommunications industry figures.