Research from amaysim, an Australian mobile service provider, reveals that two-thirds of mobile phone users believe they’re paying too much for their service. Industry figures forecast that close to a staggering $20 billion will be spent on mobile phone services this year.

NICTA and the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) have reaffirmed a research agreement under which they are developing new systems to improve the management of traffic incidents on the state’s roads. The agreement is part of the RTA’s ongoing commitment to improve incident responses, consistent with the Moroney Report on the F3 traffic incident in April 2010.

Brisbane-based telco Comscentre is offering Queensland and Victorian businesses help to restore communication services damaged or wiped out by the floods.

With hundreds of Queensland businesses affected by flooding, IT companies have collaborated to get these businesses back online.

The number of mobile broadband subscribers is likely to reach 1 billion this year, up from the current 500,000 million, as users' consumption of media and the internet is changing.

Wi-Fi is incredibly convenient - but what about security asks AVG (AU/NZ), who warns of the dangers of public Wi-Fi and provides some handy tips to protect yourself.

According to reports, thousands of small and medium businesses will have lost their servers and IT infrastructure as well as potentially their data. StorageCraft is appealing to service providers, ISPs and server hosting companies to donate space for those customers who have been affected by the flooding to help businesses bring their critical systems online.

NSS Labs has tested 13 intrusion prevention systems and finds five vendors achieve the recommended rating.

Ovum tracks cloud computing and has made predictions of take up for 2011 in its latest report.

From disruptive to productive: Unisys Predicts 2011 to be a year of practical application of cutting-edge technologies. With cost-consciousness the ‘new normal’, organisations will tap the cloud, consumerisation of IT, social and smart computing, appliances, and cybersecurity to make their mission-critical systems more productive, secure and efficient.

Amdocs has released the results of a survey that outlines the scale and significance of the data capacity crunch for mobile network service providers and their customers. The survey examined wireless service providers’ strategies for coping with the increasing demand for data on their networks while maintaining acceptable service quality.

Telstra, in a partnership with Acer and Ericsson, has launched Australia’s first commercial netbook that supports typical download speeds of 550 Kbps to 8 Mbps on the Next G network in capital cities and many regional areas, providing the fastest mobile broadband experience available without a separate USB card.

The tourism and retail sectors will be the first to benefit from a new $6 million NSW Government fund to develop innovative new-to-market information communication technology initiatives.

It's going to be a good year for telecommunication in 2011 with the NBN marching towards fruition predicts IDC.

Telstra and Huawei have reported successfully demonstrating downlink speeds of 149.4 Mbps using trials of long term evolution (LTE) mobile technology using the 1800 MHz spectrum.