"Bloody Telstra" is the latest hashtag a farming family has used to highlight the ongoing connectivity issues in regional Australia. or signup to continue reading The Denyer Family Partnership, located between Walgett and Cryon in western NSW, has created a social media video that has gone viral titled: 'Help spread the word - bloody Telstra'. "We got frustrated.
.. you're trying to run a business and you can't make phone calls or even just load the bloody weather," Georgie Denyer said.
The idea of the video came about around the dinner table after another day's work was disrupted by the frustration of lack of connectivity from Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company. It shows a number of different scenes where family members and workers are stuck in (or on top of) tractors and cars in the middle of the paddock trying to get phone coverage. It's swiftly followed by a failure to connect, and the subtle words "bloody Telstra".
Telstra has said that its wholesale mobile network coverage area reaches more than 99.6 per cent of the Australian population. This includes 4G and 5G networks covering more than 1.
7 million square kilometres of the Australian landmass. However, Mrs Denyer said that in Walgett, one cellular tower nearby ran the whole district, often resulting in little to no service at her place. "It's overloaded, too many people on it, and it just doesn't work," she said.
New phones that can connect to 4G as well as $30,000 worth of boosters have bee.
