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Further investments to promote greater choice and availability for mobile phone users as well as improving the reliability and affordability of teleco...
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Further investments to promote greater choice and availability for mobile phone users as well as improving the reliability and affordability of teleco...
Date Time Council receives funding to fix safety issues, save lives in black spots Penrith City Council will soon introduce greater safety measures on dangerous roads in the LGA thanks to funding from the Australian Government. Council is receiving $623,000 under the Black Spot Program for 2021-22, with the money to be spent on overhauling two unsafe thoroughfares. These include Forrester Rd (between Glossop St and Christie St) in St Marys, and Victoria St (between Richmond Rd and east of Burton St) in Werrington – sites Council identified as black ...
Event description About this event The Australian Government has appointed an independent committee to conduct a review into telecommunications in regional, rural and remote Australia. The committee will hold a virtual public consultation on Wednesday, 11 August from 10am to 12pm (AEST) to hear from people living and working in Southern and Eastern Tasmania about telecommunications issues and opportunities in the region. The committee is particularly interested to hear views on: the reliability of local mobile and broadband services the role of telecommunications during COVID-19 a...
Gunnedah Shire Council Gunnedah Shire residents and businesses will soon have improved access to high-speed broadband, with a Gunnedah project being funded through the Federal Government’s Regional Connectivity Program (RCP). Facilitated by Gunnedah Shire Council, the project will be delivered by Field Solutions Group (FSG), which secured more than $3.9 million in Commonwealth funding to improve broadband coverage across Gunnedah and surrounding villages. FSG will provide high-speed broadband through a fixed wireless network, comprising of 10 greenfield 45 metre towers and two co-locations....
Michael Ferguson,Minister for Science and Technology The Tasmanian Liberal Government is proud to partner with the Federal Government and Telstra to improve Tasmania’s phone coverage as part of the most recent round of the $380 million national Mobile Black Spot Program. This will see additional network infrastructure built to improve services for the communities of Bridgenorth, 22 kilometres north-west of Launceston, and Liena in the north-west of the state. The Tasmanian Liberal Government wanted to increase the chance of success of these needed infrastructure upgrades and pledged contrib...