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Welcome to your personal issue of This Week, Australia's only easy to read FREE weekly summary of the the top news stories on wireless communications in Australia and New Zealand. Don't forget if you can't wait for the latest information you can always visit our web site where This Week is updated daily. You can also visit our archive where you can see stories posted since mid-2003. Our search engine is an easy way to locate a specific topic. For those that want to know more, click through hyperlinks are embedded in each story enabling you to view the source information. Note some of these links may require you to subscribe to the publication that provides the source material.
Australia
Court halves compo claim due to mobile use
31 May, 2007
As a precedent for other worker compensation claims, the New South Wales Court of Appeal has halved the original entitlement for a woman who has found to be looking down scrolling through her mobile phone when she hit her head on a steel cage at Chatswood bus interchange.
Vodafone buoyed by 6% subscriber increase and more direct revenue
30 May, 2007
Results for the end of Vodafone's financial year on March 31 demonstrate that its customer base had increased from 3.515 million to 3.675 million which a 6 per cent increase on the back of a popular range of handsets and high-value capped plans. Added to this has been an increase in overall service revenue which grew 13.7 per cent from customers buying more minutes of voice usage, more messaging services, and more mobile email and mobile broadband data services.
Energy Australia demonstrate wireless smarts to international peers
29 May, 2007
For the benefit of international energy delegates from New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Paris, New South Wales utility Energy Australia has demonstrated the new wireless capabilities of its internet-protocol-enabled power network complete with WiMAX-connected smart meters.
OLPC tests wireless range in Australian outback
28 May, 2007
The One Laptop Per Child program has successfully tested pre-draft 802.11s technology to a range of 2 kilometres in remote areas of the Australian outback that represent the topography common to places where the program is expected to reach with no infrastructure and no access points.
One.Tel refuses to go away for PBL and News Ltd.
28 May, 2007
With the statute of limitations due to expire, special purpose liquidator Paul Weston has thrown the last legal lifeline for shareholders in lodging a statement of claim for the $132 million investment former One.Tel directors James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch reneged on underwriting just days from the eventual collapse of the telco on May 29, 2001.
New Zealand
WiMax spectrum auction line six deep
1 June, 2007
There are indications that six companies will be able to bid for wireless spectrum now that the government has decided to auction allocations in the 2.3GHz and 2.5GHz bands together in December.
Inside word has Telecom turning to GSM
30 May, 2007
Speculation is mounting that an announcement will be made by Telecom in the next 10 days to confirm that the CDMA operator is ready to sign a $300 - 400 million contract with its technology partner Alcatel-Lucent to set up a GSM voice network and EV-DO data 3G network.
Compass gets new MVNO direction
30 May, 2007
Vodafone has signed another wholesale agreement for junior telco Compass Communications to begin signing customers to its new mobile service from October using Vodafone's network.
Erasing mobile music middleman
29 May, 2007
"Voeveo" technology from a New Zealand-based company is going global with the ability to download music to mobile phones directly without the need for mobile users to depend on their network supplier to do it for them, whether that's for music, ringtones or movie trailers.
ISP Orcon turns MVNO
29 May, 2007
With more than 100,000 phone and internet customers and ranked New Zealand's fourth-largest internet service provider, Orcon will begin to offer branded wireless telephony products over Vodafone's network infrastructure.
NZ Communications refuses to comment on Vodafone offer
28 May, 2007
While the details of Vodafone's offer to the Commerce Commission has been met with steely silence by NZ Communications, analysts such as Paul Budde have been more forthright in calling the proposal "empty" for excluding Telecom from roaming and saying the charges are too high to help NZ Communications' business case.
Wimax spectrum auction delay due to Woosh
28 May, 2007
The reason for the delay to the proposed re-auction of rights to 2.3GHz spectrum beyond 2010 is reportedly due to a threat by Woosh Wireless to initiate a judicial review of the auctioning process in order to defend rights it has accumulated in about a third of 100MHz of spectrum in the 2.3GHz band until 2010.
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Upcoming Events
Visit TeleResources at CommunicAsia 2007
19-22 June 2007
Singapore
The CommunicAsia 2007 Summit is the region's largest and most established communications conference. It focuses on the business of mobile communications, broadband, future networks and other critical technologies gaining momentum in today's markets. As expected is a prestigious meeting of industry bigwigs with more than 1,000 attendees from over 30 countries, it has secured a reputation as the must-attend annual meeting for industry players.
TeleResources will be joined by a number of our valued technology partners at this event, including: Please stop by and visit TeleResources at the Australian National Pavilion, Booth No: 3K1-12.
If you would like to schedule a meeting with TeleResources Executives in advance, please call +612 9975 2230 or email us.
For more details and to register for the event, please visit www.communicasia.com
Fleet Mobile Integrated Comms
28-30 May 2007
Sydney, Australia
In it's 16th year, Fleet Mobile Integrated Comms covers the integration of different mobile communications technologies used for public safety, security and critical infrastructure.
2 Day Programme & 2 Workshops - Featuring 12 Case Studies, Keynotes and Panel Sessions
Fleet Mobile Integrated Comms features 12 tailored case studies plus other presentations focusing on mobile communication strategies from the perspectives of the industry’s leading experts, including: - Incident Management & Preparedness
- Technologies: Mobile Mesh; Digital Radio; GIS; Underground Comms; Mobile Data
- Integrated & Converged Comms Strategies
- Operational Effectiveness, CIP, Public Safety & Security
- Digital Network Implementation
- Spectrum Review, Management & Planning
For more details and to register for the event, please visit www.iir.com.au/fleet
China Mobility International Summit 2007
11-12 July 2007
Beijing, China
The China Mobility International Summit is a direct descendant of the China 3G Mobile International Summit, the largest international mobile and wireless business gathering in China. Co-organised with the China Institute of Communications, this annual Summit has top level government and industry support, being endorsed by the Ministry of Information Industry and supported by all of China’s mobile and fixed operators.
The Summit agenda and speakers reflect in-depth research and face-to-face discussions with China’s operators and industry experts, assuring strongly focused coverage on wireless broadband technologies, systems and services of greatest interest for industry development in China.
For more details and to register for the event, please visit www.china-mobility.com
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