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Australia

Driven to distraction

7 December, 2007

Despite the known dangers of using a handset while driving, a 24-hour blitz by NSW police has caught more than 400 drivers red-handed using their mobile phones.

Telstra to appeal Next G decision

7 December, 2007

Telstra has announced that it will appeal the ruling by the Federal Court of Australia that the telco misled consumers over the extent of its Next G mobile phone coverage.

Stretching the truth about Next G coverage

6 December, 2007

In response to the case brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against Telstra, the Federal court has agreed that to claim that coverage for its Next G network was available "everywhere you need it" was misleading or deceptive in breach of the Trade Practices Act.

Bakahatsu batteries

5 December, 2007

Following recent reports of exploding handset batteries in South Korea and New Zealand, an Australian has taken some photographic evidence of a Nokia 6230i phone burning a hole in her tiled floor.

90.2% triggers full ownership

4 December, 2007

With a 90.2 percent stake in Unwired now secured, Network 7 has the right to to compulsorily acquire the outstanding shares and declare full ownership in accordance with the Corporations Act.

Mobiles Maltreatment

4 December, 2007

A Telstra survey has shed some interesting light on the ways that Australians damage their mobile phones now that they used in everyday life.

New Zealand

Spectrum acquisition

7 December, 2007

Hot on the heels of its roaming agreement with Vodafone, aspiring mobile operator NZ Communications has signed up to buy a block of 5MHzspectrum from Telecom.

Pricing still too high

6 December, 2007

The fourth set of quarterly figures compiled by the Commerce Commission indicate that costs for mobile and fixed-line phone services are still expensive when compared with New Zealand's OECD peers.

Right to Roam

5 December, 2007

NZ Communications has finalised a national roaming agreement with Vodafone to support its bid to build a third mobile network in New Zealand.

Woosh loses a director

4 December, 2007

Soon after leaving the Auckland International Airport board, John Maasland has stepped down as a director of Woosh Wireless but still retains his small shareholding.

Wikipedia goes mobile

3 December, 2007

Wellington software firm Instinct Entertainment has won a deal to provide a mobile version of Wikipedia to Singapore Telecom.

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GSM association announces PCCW Mobile HK – MOOV on Mobile- powered by Vidiator- as "Best Mobile Music Service" at the Asia Mobile Awards 2007

November 2007, Macau: The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association for mobile operators, today announced the winners of the Asia Mobile Awards 2007, as well as the category winners and the overall winner of the Asia Mobile Innovation Awards, which were contested today at the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau.

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