Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Telstra and the Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA) have launched the Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Prize for Telecommunications and Disability.
The $20,000 prize will be awarded to the author of the original paper published by TJA that best demonstrates tangible benefits to individuals with disabilities through the innovative use of telecommunications.
The prize recognises and commemorates the work of the late Revd Canon Dr Christopher Newell AM who from 1990 to 2008 in represented the needs of people with disability to the telecommunications industry.
Robert Morsillo, Telstra's group manager consumer affairs, said Newell had worked tirelessly to get the industry, government and society to listen to people with disabilities and accord them the same opportunities to participate as everyone else.
Information about the prize is available here . The competition is managed on behalf of the ACS-TSA (Telecommunications Society of Australia; a special interest group of the Australian Computer Society) by the managing editor of TJA, Dr Peter Gerrand. Entries are invited from around the world. The best entries, including the winning paper or papers, will be published in the May 2010 issue of TJAThe deadline for entries is 15 January 2010.
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