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[Bluesky users: please follow @ap.brid.gy so I can read your replies.] Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. I also have a novel out in ebook form, Mind the Gap. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au, and become a patron of my Patreon at patreon.com/timrichards.
Fair enough really, Telstra has been getting away with murder with its coverage maps. I'm also tired of all its mini-blackspots in big cities, but that's another story.
"Telstra is on track to lose about 1 million square kilometres of claimed mobile coverage – an area larger than NSW – under a proposed regulatory standard that would force carriers to show only areas where a normal smartphone can reliably make a call.
"The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) proposed Mobile Network Coverage Maps Standard 2026 would impose uniform signal-strength thresholds across the industry, replacing a system in which each telco has effectively been allowed to define 'coverage' on its own terms."
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/telstra-s-coverage-map-may-shrink-by-area-the-size-of-nsw-20260309-p5o8po.html
