#mobileandinternetaccess — Public Fediverse posts

Advocates scramble to find funding for regional tech help service
By Claudia Sullivan

If you're having connectivity issues, one place you can turn to is the Regional Tech Hub. But now it might be forced to close.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/independent-tech-help-service-loses-funding/106682522

#MobileandInternetAccess #ClaudiaSullivan

Advocates scramble to find funding for regional tech help service
By Claudia Sullivan

If you're having connectivity issues, one place you can turn to is the Regional Tech Hub. But now it might be forced to close.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/independent-tech-help-service-loses-funding/106682522

#MobileandInternetAccess #ClaudiaSullivan

Advocates scramble to find funding for regional tech help service
By Claudia Sullivan

If you're having connectivity issues, one place you can turn to is the Regional Tech Hub. But now it might be forced to close.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/independent-tech-help-service-loses-funding/106682522

#MobileandInternetAccess #ClaudiaSullivan

Advocates scramble to find funding for regional tech help service
By Claudia Sullivan

If you're having connectivity issues, one place you can turn to is the Regional Tech Hub. But now it might be forced to close.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/independent-tech-help-service-loses-funding/106682522

#MobileandInternetAccess #ClaudiaSullivan

Advocates scramble to find funding for regional tech help service
By Claudia Sullivan

If you're having connectivity issues, one place you can turn to is the Regional Tech Hub. But now it might be forced to close.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/independent-tech-help-service-loses-funding/106682522

#MobileandInternetAccess #ClaudiaSullivan

Thousands spent on antennas and boosters fails to improve mobile coverage
By Caroline Horn

Marten Jak lives only 10 kilometres from one of South Australia's largest regional towns. Despite spending thousands of dollars on boosters and antennas, he does not have a decent mobile phone signal.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/waitpinga-residents-poor-mobile-phone-and-internet-coverage-sa/106349714

#MobileandInternetAccess #RegionalCommunities #CarolineHorn

Senate committee recommends delay to 3G shutdown as mobile users fear loss of coverage
By Tyrone Dalton

With nearly 200,000 Australians relying on 3G coverage, rural residents are especially concerned they will be left without mobile service if the shutdown proceeds.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-02/senate-committee-urges-3g-mobile-coverage-shutdown-delay/104176024

#MobileandInternetAccess #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #RuralandRemoteCommunities #TyroneDalton

'A reckless and dangerous act': Police investigate toppling of 4G mobile phone tower
By Max Tillman

For the second time in as many years, a mobile tower in the New South Wales town of Mullumbimby has been toppled in what police suspect was a deliberate act of vandalism.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/mullumbimby-4g-mobile-phone-tower-destroyed-vandalism-suspected/103906422

#TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #RegionalCommunities #Vandalism #MobileandInternetAccess #AntisocialBehaviour #Police #MaxTillman

Outback residents who often cannot call triple-0 leave town as Telstra outages reach boiling point
By Emily Dobson

Fed-up residents say their "safety is at risk" and some are moving away to the cities as Telstra outages continue to let down remote communities, but one independent provider is expanding and hoping to pick up the slack.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/karumba-telstra-outages-residents-leaving-safety-risk/103517748

#Internet #MobileandInternetAccess #RegionalCommunities #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #EmilyDobson

Taylor Swift was a victim of deepfake pornography, but cybercrime experts say she is far from alone
By Lincoln Rothall

It isn't just celebrities who are being victimised with "deepfake" explicit images — cybercrime experts say others, including children and teenagers, are increasingly being targeted too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-26/deepfake-imagery-and-ai-generated-pornography-are-creating-risks/103457214

#ArtificialIntelligence #Education #SocialMedia #Ethics #Internet #MobileandInternetAccess #BodyImage #LincolnRothall

Did Taylor Swift's Melbourne show literally break the internet because telcos underestimated Swifties?
By Ange Lavoipierre and Paul Higgins

On the Telstra network alone, concertgoers at Taylor Swift's Melbourne shows used around 34.85 TB of data, or 12 TB each night  — that's the equivalent of 15,500 hours of video, lasting 1.7 years if it was played continuously.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-23/taylor-swift-melbourne-sydney-show-internet-mobile-phone-data/103497378

#ScienceandTechnology #Internet #MobileandInternetAccess #MobilePhones #Events #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #AngeLavoipierre #PaulHiggins

Bus stop app could be among 'most significant innovations in public transport'

An app intended to help public transport users who are blind or vision-impaired is being trialled along a popular Adelaide bus route, ahead of what the technology's developer hopes is an expanded rollout.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/bus-app-for-vision-impaired-passengers-trialled-in-adelaide/103419776

#PublicTransport #Disabilities #Eyes #SocialMedia #MobileandInternetAccess