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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. “Whilst we are also seeking Telstra’s assistance and commitment towards maintaining and enhancin...

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, with school closures meaning that many First Nations students could not access the learning materials, ...

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...

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 Shayne Neumann said it was important for the community to have a say on where the next mobile base sta...

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 and Telstra, the new 3G and 4GX infrastructure is expected to provide over 17 square kilometres of ...