The NRMA has raised concerns over moves to ban the use of GPS-enabled mobile phone handsets as in-car navigation devices while allowing drivers to use navigation aids that provide the same service to motorists.

This week the Victorian Minister for the Environment, Gavin Jennings, and Recycling Committee Chairman, Chris Mason, launched two MobileMuster collection points in the heart of Melbourne.

More than 13,000 Australians have sought and obtained site specific information regarding electromagnetic energy (EME) levels around base stations over the past 12 months from the Mobile Carriers Forum’s Radio Frequency National Site Archive (RFNSA).

CommSec says in its Economic Insights bulletin released this week that mobile phone shipments have risen for the fifth time in six months.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority today launched Let’s Fight It Together, a new teaching resource to combat cyberbullying that will be available free to all schools in Australia.

A non-profit group in the occupied West Bank has started a scheme that uses mobile phone text messaging to help young Palestinians find work, the Guardian in the UK reports.

The federal government has selected a company to build a new $15 million national warning system that will send text alerts to the mobile phones of residents threatened by bushfires.

Telecommunications is eating a larger slice of the household budget than petrol this year, as the aftershocks of the global financial crisis force Australians to shift some of their consumption back to home base, the Australian newspaper reported this week.