As an industry, mobile telecommunications is a direct contributor and an enabling technology across all facets of the economy, driving productivity across all business sectors.

When applying for planning permits to build new mobile towers and infrastructure, one point often missed is the benefits they bring to ensure effective, efficient and sustainable functioning of the region.

There was a time when going to work meant arriving at a specified time. Employees would be given a morning and afternoon tea break and an hour for lunch sometime between 12pm and 2pm. At the end of the day, staff would leave around the same time, usually at 5pm or 5.30pm.

School’s out for another term; let the event planning begin. The number of kids planning catch ups with friends, arranging pick up and drop off points with parents, or just in need of a mobile phone to keep in touch over the school holidays will swell into the hundreds of thousands each day.