Comment on Telecommunications ombudsman calls for change to make mobile phones an essential service - ABC News
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 4 months ago
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A Telstra outage that left people without reception for six days in regional WA has highlighted a regulation loophole with mobile technology not being considered an essential service.
Port Denison and Dongara are 353km north of Perth and in July the outage left many people out of reach.
One business, which relies on Telstra for its eftpos machines, estimated it lost up to $18,000 in sales as a result of the outage.
“The reality is that this country is so city-focused that they’re forgetting, rapidly, the people in regional areas in so many ways, and this is just another example,” she said.
In November last year, more than 10 million Australians and 400,000 businesses were impacted by a 14-hour Optus network outage.
Ms Gebert said people who were not satisfied with a resolution offered by a telecommunications provider had the right to complain to the ombudsman’s office.
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