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The Federal Government has announced it plans to spend $16.4 million to improve mobile connectivity for bushfire-prone areas on the outskirts of Australia’s major cities. The Peri-Urban Mobile Program (PUMP) is set to be unveiled in the 2021-22 Budget, where telcos and infrastructure providers will get grant funding to deploy new mobile phone infrastructure to improve mobile reception and coverage in peri-urban areas. “Improving coverage on the peri-urban fringe will help communities access...

Budget 2021: Bushfire-prone urban fringes to get AU$16.4m in mobile network grants ZDNet 5/6/2021 The Australian government has said it will be handing over AU$16.4 million in mobile connectivity grants as part of its 2021 Budget set to be unveiled on May 11. The grants will be focused on bushfire-prone peri-urban areas, the outskirts and transition areas between urban and rural landscapes, and given the abbreviation PUMP for Peri-Urban Mobile Program. "Improving coverage on the peri-urban ...

iTWire Tuesday, 27 April 2021 23:19 Telstra delivers 30 connectivity improvement projects across Australia worth almost $55m Shares As part of the Regional Connectivity Program, Telstra says it will deliver 30 transformative communications projects worth almost $55 million to improve connectivity across the country. Telstra says it will “invest almost $16 million and, together with almost $26 million from the Australian Government and over $13 million from state and local gover...

iTWire Monday, 26 April 2021 11:00 Telstra is building a better network and transforming connectivity on King Island Shares No, its not an island full of Elvis Presley impersonators, but an island thats part of Tasmania, and it will benefit from an upgrade project that Telstra says will transform connectivity on the island, improve mobile coverage, boost capacity and data speeds and strengthen network resilience. King Island. Its a beautiful island in the Bass Strait of Australi...

Dedicated mobile coverage for more than 270 residents Domestic travel and reliable connectivity go hand in hand and Optus is making sure travellers to Tasmania and locals alike are able to stay connected after switching on a brand-new site in Lachlan, delivering additional coverage to the community as part of the priority round of the Federal Governments Mobile Black Spot Program. The Optus site, located on an existing tower along Moores Road, will provide dedicated coverage to Lachlan that in...

Date Time Mayor implores Telstra to participate in a Bilpin community meeting The Mayor of Hawkesbury, Councillor Patrick Conolly has contacted Telstra to ask the telecommunications provider to engage with Council and the Bilpin community on vital telecommunications that are currently not being provided in Bilpin. “We are asking Telstra to meet with our community members and Council to discuss how the telecommunications network can be made more effective and resilient,” Mayor Conolly said. ...

World Vision · First Nations students four times more likely to have no internet at home · Closing the Digital Divide should be part of Closing the Gap targets First Nations households are suffering a yawning “Digital Divide” with the rest of Australia, with a new report released on Closing the Gap Day showing one in four First Nations households has no internet access, limiting learning opportunities for Indigenous students. COVID-19 widened this gap over the last year, wit...

Mobile phone black spot gets Optus base station in middle of Telstra country WedWednesday 10 The closest community to the Tjukayirla Roadhouse is about 200 kilometres away. ( Share Print text only Cancel When staff at a remote roadhouse heard they were getting mobile phone reception, they thought it would bring them one step closer to the outside world. Key points: It enables emergency calls but customers need to be with Optus for normal phone use A communications advocacy group wants a rethink...

Premium Content Subscriber only IPSWICH residents with poor mobile phone reception can bring about change by reporting black spots to the Mobile Black Spot Program. The program has provided new towers at Moore, Somerset Dam, Jimna, Esk-Hampton Rd (Redbank Creek), Kholo and Mount Crosby, which are all on air providing 3G and 4G services. The South Ripley and Mount Kilcoy towers are due to be on air by mid-2021. The Linville tower construction is due to start in 2021. Federal Member for Blair Sh...

COVERAGE BOOST: Wattle Range Council chief executive Ben Gower, Member for Barker Tony Pasin, Telstra South Australian regional manager Mark Bolton and Wattle Range Mayor Des Noll celebrate the commissioning of the Tower Road base station south of Penola. MOBILE phone coverage south of Penola was given a significant boost this week as the switch was flicked on the new Tower Road base station. Jointly funded by the Federal Government’s Mobile Black Spot Program, the South Australian Government...