Complaints against the telecommunications industry rose a whopping 54 per cent in the 2008/09 financial year, prompting the industry ombudsman to issue a warning to business and consumers.
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) welcomes the legislation passed by the Senate this week making it a criminal offence to "rebirth" stolen mobile phones by illegally modifying a phone's electronic serial number.
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has agreed to set up a national telephone emergency warning system to which the Federal Government has committed up to $15 million.
Australia's competition watchdog tonight issued a strongly worded statement of concern that the proposed merger of mobile carriers Hutchison and Vodafone could lead to increased retail prices on mobile telephony and broadband services.
Mobile phone manufacturer HTC is believed to be planning an Australian launch of a mobile handset based on Google's Android platform, with Optus and possibly other carriers to support the device.
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So where did Vodafone and Hutchison go wrong and will they fare any better as a combined entity? Telstra's Deena Shiff, Internode's Simon Hackett and analyst Paul Budde discuss the issue in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
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In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.
Microsoft's web-focused ReMIX conference kicked off at Star City in Sydney this morning. Attendees will be able to take in the latest and greatest of Microsoft's technologies, as well as learn tricks of the tradefrom their peers.
The release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008 led to the creation of an entire industry where developers worked on their own applications to sell through Apple's App Store. This trend has since been picked up by larger companies. Read about why such a phenomenon is fast becoming a success.
Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's technology operation in the third of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
Singapore Telecommunications last week shed light on the difficult industry dynamics that lay ahead of VHA, the mobile phone business being formed from the merger of Vodafone Australia and Hutchison Telecommunications.
Digital Music and TV are heading to a mobile phone near you.
Hutchison Telecom's "3" will start to recruit business application developers in April, with a new Web site instructing developers how to use the company's 3G network the first step into battle with other carriers for the lucrative business communications dollar.
If you've got a compelling business reason to own a push-to-talk phone, then the KX440 was built for you. If you're after a flashier phone, it definitely isn't.
Sexy sliders, 2-megapixel camera phones, a sleek clamshell and a snazzy new interface are some of the highlights from Nokia Connection 2005.
Spam sent by text message could become a bigger problem than e-mail-based spam unless the industry takes action, according to an independent mobile phone regulator.
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