AMTA has told a Parliamentary inquiry into raising productivity growth that the mobile telecommunications industry has a pivotal role to play in helping to boost Australia’s productivity performance. AMTA has made a submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics' inquiry into raising the level of productivity growth in the Australian economy.

In April this year the Mobile Carriers Forum (MCF) launched an investigation into local government development application fees for telecommunications towers in Queensland following reports from MCF members that the Sunshine Coast Regional Council was charging carriers $20,000 – just for the right to apply for development approval.

The recycling partnership between MobileMuster, the mobile telecommunication industry’s official recycling program, and Landcare Australia has resulted in a pledge to plant 200,000 trees.

Smart systems offer the most promising path for Australia to lift its long-term economic potential, according to a new Access Economics report which found adoption of smart technologies in electricity, irrigation, health, transport and broadband communications could increase GDP by 1.5% within 10 years.

Federal and state governments should investigate whether it is technically possible to send warning messages to mobile phones, the second phase of a national telephony-based warning system, by the 2009-10 bushfire season, the interim Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission report says.

The international safety agency with the task of setting worldwide safety standards for mobile phones has recently undertaken a review of electromagnetic energy guidelines and confirmed that they are protective for all mobile phone users.

Young consumers are better protected from misleading mobile premium service (MPS) promotions following Australian Competition and Consumer Commission action.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has been successful in obtaining injunctions and declarations against a number of parties involved in the ACMA’s first SMS spam case before the Federal Court. The matter relates to the sending of unsolicited commercial SMS messages.

We're probably all guilty of it — fiddling with the car radio, programming the GPS on the go, frantically texting back a friend while you're stopped at the lights, the Age reports this week.

Sales of hands free kits for mobile phone users are likely to rise as a result of the government bringing a ban in on 1st November this year. The ban extends to all use of hand held mobile phones whether texting or calling, with the exception of 111 calls for genuine emergencies, Business to Business reports in Auckland this week.