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 of the Mobile Black Spot Program Now, they joke the only person to be able to use it is the man who installed it.