Although the history of mobile phone calls of various types spans decades, with a limited yet commercial mobile service available in St Louis in 1946, the first “modern” handheld mobile phone call made in the US in 1973 and not until 1985 in the UK, Australia’s first mobile call was thirty years ago today – August 9, 1981.

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, has appointed Dinusha Koggalahewa as its new data centre facilities manager.

As U.S. telecoms prepare to receive $7.2 billion in stimulus money to be used for increasing broadband access in rural and other underserved areas, they are sparring with consumer groups over whether the public funding should obligate them to treat all traffic equally.