It's probably quite difficult to annoy the ACMA, but when your spamming gets beyond a joke, expect to be thrust into the spotlight.

The telecomms industry has made its last bid to escape regulation of its customer service practices by the ACMA, with the submission of a revised Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code to the ACMA for registration.

Nokia has fallen foul of Australia's anti-spam laws for 'helpful' SMS messages it sends to owners of Nokia mobiles.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) says Vodafone Hutchison Australia has accepted an enforcable undertaking over dealer telemarketing after a series of complaints from people on the Do Not Call register.

The ACMA has told Vodafone that it must comply with the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (TCP Code, or face a possible court action that could result in a $250,000 fine.

Channel Seven sourced images of a grieving family from Facebook as part of a report into the sentencing of a convicted murderer.  A complaint regarding the use of these images was dismissed by the ACMA.

The ACMA is proposing to allocate numbers beginning 05 to mobile services in expectation of the current 04 range becoming exhausted by 2017.

According to the ACMA, the growing popularity of smartphones and mobile applications has the potential to disrupt existing business models by allowing consumers to bypass established service providers.

The Converge Review Committee has released its interim report calling for the creation of a new content and communications regulator with the flexibility to make rules and decisions within clearly stated regulatory objectives and with sufficient powers to encourage competition and compliance.

Australians now on average each have 1.5 mobile services, but despite there being almost five million dedicated mobile broadband devices in use and almost 10 million mobile handsets used to access the Internet, 93 percent of Internet downloads still take place over fixed networks.