Mobile premium services are the best known and most widely used form of mobile payment to date. They are essentially a method of electronic payment, a platform on which consumers can purchase content such as ringtones, games or news updates (generally via sending an SMS text message to a '19' number), that gets sent to...

This report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) shows that satisfaction levels varied considerably when consumers and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) were asked to focus on aspects of service delivery such as customer service, service reliability, call costs, billing information, internet data speeds and line rental costs.

In this discussion paper ACMA reviews the regulation of mobile phone jammers and provides background on a proposal to trial mobile phone jammers in a correctional facility. Executive summary In 1999 the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) published the Mobile Phone Jammer Prohibition to prohibit the supply and operation of specified radiocommunications devices commonly known as...

In 2007/8 the authors became involved in the review of the mobile phone evidence used to convict Mr Phuong Ngo in 2000 for organising the murder of John Newman, a member of the NSW Parliament, in 1994. The case was dubbed 'the first political assassination3 in Australia'. Mr Ngo was convicted at his third trial...

This report raises awareness of the importance of telecommunications infrastructure to the community's social and economic well being and aims to generate debate on the appropriate level of telecommunications infrastructure required to meet Australia's needs.The 2007 Telecommunications Infrastructure Report Card was undertaken to raise awareness of the importance of telecommunications infrastructure to the community’s social...