Telstra has opened a new phone tower between Glen Innes and Inverell. The company says the mast will markedly improve the access to phones and data both among residents of the Kings Plain and travelers on the Gwydir Highway.
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Northern Tablelands MP, Adam Marshall, who cut the ribbon, said: “It’s a big deal because any time that we are building new phone towers is a darn good thing.
“But this is doubly good in that the emergency services have really been wanting a tower to be built.”
Ambulance and fire crews should now have easier communciation in emergencies in that region between Inverell and Glen Innes (where the wind farms are).
The tower between Glen Innes and Inverell fills in a “black hole’ in coverage.
Mr Marshall said this tower was jointly funded by the state and Commonwealth governments, with NSW putting in $50 million for the whole set of towers.
He said another 13 were planned in the Northern Tablelands.
The government said it had “committed $220 million to the Mobile Black Spot Program to invest in telecommunications infrastructure to improve mobile coverage along major regional transport routes, in small communities and in a number of identified priority locations”.
