Mobile Phones

Wadeye, one of Australia's largest Aboriginal communities, has been without a stable mobile phone service for months, leaving locals unable to make calls or access the internet. 

A new Vodafone campaign has regional Australians seething after the telecommunications giant claimed to focus its network infrastructure on where "98 whatever per cent of you actually live". 

ACMA has introduced new rules for standardised mobile coverage maps that will see mobile signals below -115 dBm labelled as "no coverage".

Residents in the remote NT community of Kintore have had difficulty making Triple Zero calls during a six-day Telstra outage, which has also caused issues buying fuel. 

It's known for fishing boats, a pristine coast, a skyline without a high-rise in sight — and notoriously patchy phone reception. So, a new phone tower would be welcome, you'd think. 

After Donald Trump's repeated threats to acquire Greenland, many Danish people felt powerless but new apps are helping them make choices to boycott US-made products.

Customers are advised to delay software updates on affected devices and find alternative ways to communicate if needed. 

To understand whether these apps are worth our while, we first need to consider why staying focused is so difficult in the first place.

Firefighters are left without communications while battling emergency-level bushfires as an extended power outage sees mobile phone towers fail.

Social media can help at-risk youth connect with support services, so what impact will the federal government's under-16s ban have on those community hubs?

Patrick, 15, does not use social media and hopes he never does. Nick, 15, had a flip phone for the first few years of high school. Here is why they support the social media ban.

New Delhi wants a government app installed on all of the country's mobile phones, but opposition MPs and privacy advocates have voiced concerns about surveillance.

Social media platforms Lemon8 and Yope are put on notice about age limit laws as both apps surge in popularity ahead of a ban for under 16s.

Organisations using branded identifiers in their text messages to consumers will need to register them by July 1, 2026, or risk being mistaken for a scam.

It's a battle Australian teens and their parents fight often: how much time is too much time on a smartphone?

The devices are now largely banned in government schools across the country but private schools are setting their own rules. Norman Hermant and Melissa Polimeni report.

As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded phone can restore patience and connection.

Police and volunteer ambulance officers have told a community meeting they struggle to connect with people during emergencies due to poor 4G access in central Tasmania.

Armed with a burner phone and a fake name, I set out to learn how Instagram’s algorithm really works. This is what happened next.

An inquiry into the telco's triple-0 failure was green-lit by the Senate late on Tuesday and will hold its first hearings in Parliament House next week.

Emma Van Der Hoek had only just moved to London from Sydney when her phone was stolen. She was inspired to do something about it.