This paper looks at how the mobile phone may shape the boundaries between the public (work) and private (home) domains, and on how these boundaries are negotiated or navigated. Positive and negative impacts of the mobile phone appear to be dependant on occupation, economic and market forces, contextual factors associated with bureaucratic structures, and the...

ACMA has approved the Mobile Premium Services Self-Regulatory Scheme, which provides a range of new protections around mobile premium content for adults and children. It has been developed by mobile phone companies and providers of mobile content, and has benefited from a consultation process that helped identify all of the main issues for users of...

Chris Chapman, ACMA chair, addresses this month's Telecommunciations Summit 06 in Sydney.

The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has announced new safeguards to protect consumers from inappropriate or harmful material delivered over 3G mobile phones and similar devices.

The Telecommunications Service Provider (Mobile Premium Services) Determination 2005 (No.1) provides rules to restrict and prohibit access to certain categories of content accessible via mobile premium rate numbers and mobile carrier portals. ACMA is seeking public comment on a draft amendment to the rules governing the provision of these services. The Telecommunications Service Provider (Mobile...