The report shows the ways Australian adults connect and interact in 2025, and how this has changed over the past nine years. It focuses on how they use phone services and apps for calls and messages, and the ways they use communications and social media sites and apps. Mobile phones remained the primary way Australians...

While cybersecurity self-help advice is readily available to consumers, most advice is ill-suited to intimate relationship contexts where sharing is common. This study creates a new evidence base to understand everyday consumer smartphone sharing in intimate relationships to improve cybersecurity and technology design for all Australians.

On 26 March 2024, the imminent shutdown of the 3G mobile network and telecommunications services was referred to the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 November 2024. The inquiry makes reference to: (a) the impact on access to triple zero emergency calls; (b) the number of devices...

This short report explores New Zealand student's access to digital devices such as laptops and smartphones, access to the internet, and access to devices in private.

Mobile phones are changing behaviour, relationships, communication and the dynamics of physical environments. This article aims to determine if 'nomophobia' (the fear of being without one’s mobile phone) can increase the likelihood of problematic dependent, prohibited and dangerous mobile phone use.