Telstra, the AFL and NRL have lost the first round in their battle to have the Optus TV Now service ruled in breach of the Copyright Act. However they are expected to appeal the court judgement handed down today.

Vodafone has launched a service for small businesses that enables them to advertise a landline number and have that directed to their nominated Vodafone mobile with no call diversion charges.

Telstra has upgraded the provision of usage information to its mobile customers with the launch of a free service that notifies customers on its Freedom Connect mobile plans of their voice call, SMS and MMS usage against their mobile plan allowance.

Australians travelling to 11 countries in Asia where mobile operators are member of the Bridge Alliance can now enjoy unlimited data roaming for a fixed price of $US12 per day.

The ACMA is planning to fix one of consumers' biggest complaints about mobile services: the high price of calling 1800 and 13/1300 numbers. It intends to make 1800 calls free and 13/1300 calls the same price as calls from a fixed line.

The world's first cellular mobile telephone service, using the Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT) technology was launched 30 years ago, on 1 October 1981 in Stockholm.

Telstra has introduced an online portal that enables its postpaid mobile customers to track their data usage and spending from their handsets. However it provides no information to users of 'capped' plans on how much of their monthly included call/sms/mms value they have used.

Red Bull has revealed prices for the prepaid mobile service it will launch later this month on the Vodafone network, and its offers are likely to be warmly welcomed: unlike many mobile 'bundles' calls to 1300 and 1800 numbers are included.

NBN Co's submission to the ACCC on Telstra's structural separation undertakings goes to great lengths to counter the argument that restrictions stopping Telstra marketing mobile services as a direct substitute for the fixed network NBN will be detrimental to mobile competition, but in so doing it once again raises the spectre of the NBN being undermined by mobile broadband services.

LinkedIn today launched its new, faster next generation mobile service with a completely rebuilt platform which it says will give its members a whole new “mobile experience”.