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Love your mobile phone? Hate your mobile phone bill? One network operator has decided enough is enough and is finally offering totally free and unlimited calls via Skype.

The banking industry in the Asia Pacific region has bumped aside telecommunications companies to drive the market for mobile banking and payments, although both industries are struggling to find the right business model for satisfying revenue requirements balanced with consumer needs and expectation.

Sydney’s Randwick Council might just have opened a Pandora’s Box to a flood of complaints from residents of the suburb on everything from potholes in their roads to problems with illegally dumped rubbish, with its new community text service using a mobile application portal supplied by Dialogue Communications.

Mobile email use in the Asia pacific region is emerging as the growth market in the enterprise mobility space with a massive annual growth rate of 34% predicted over the next four years.

There’s been rapid adoption of GPS in mobile phones, with mobile vendors seeing location-based services as a major untapped business opportunity.

In the midst of doom and gloom, mobile broadband has proven to be Australia's beacon of light, with the market doubling in the past year to more than $1 billion.

The financial downturn has all businesses tightening their belts and focussing on getting greater bang for their buck as they look for ways to survive the crisis.

The latest forecasts on the growth of mobile broadband predict revenues of $137 billion globally by 2014 but, despite that, operators will have to content themselves with the fact that user growth will be far faster than actual revenue growth.

Vodafone Australia is in the final stages of testing and tuning its high speed 3G network in major regional centres, with the network to go live in the first week of May 2009. 
 

3 Mobile has brought out a range of new mobile phone plans especially for small to medium sized businesses which 3 says will help them in the current economic climate to streamline their administration and squeeze maximum value from their existing spend.
 

The ‘international business elite’ are increasingly accessing the Internet while on the move, with a growing need for more flexibility to view television content on their laptops as well as on their desktop computers and mobile devices.