{"id":2125,"date":"2015-12-14T01:08:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2015\/12\/14\/mobile-phone-coverage-black-spots-in-gippsland-to-be-considered-for-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2015-12-14T01:08:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:08:49","slug":"mobile-phone-coverage-black-spots-in-gippsland-to-be-considered-for-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/mobile-phone-coverage-black-spots-in-gippsland-to-be-considered-for-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"MOBILE PHONE COVERAGE BLACK SPOTS IN GIPPSLAND TO BE CONSIDERED FOR UPGRADES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>December 10, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Federal MP Darren Chester says he will be calling for additional mobile phone blackspots to be fixed in Gippsland as part of a national fund established to improve coverage in regional areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said Gippsland had 10 new mobile phone base stations funded under Round One of the programme and there was a strong case to argue for further funding under Round Two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m committed to fixing mobile phone coverage black spots in Gippsland, to improve community safety and business productivity,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last round of funding helped us secure new base stations for major transport routes like Hyland Way, South Gippsland Highway and Traralgon-Maffra Rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to see more of our peak holiday destinations receive mobile phone coverage upgrades to meet the expectations of the travelling public and local residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Round One of the program, 96 of the 274 nominated black spots in Gippsland were fixed by handheld or external antenna coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The funding package was worth $7.67 million, including $2.61 million from the Federal Government. The fund leverages additional funding from state governments and telecommunications providers.<\/p>\n<p>A map of mobile black spot locations and the locations which will receive new or upgraded coverage under the Programme is available on the National Map: <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalmap.gov.au\/\">http:\/\/nationalmap.gov.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communications.gov.au\/what-we-do\/phone\/mobile-services-and-coverage\/mobile-black-spot-programme\">https:\/\/www.communications.gov.au\/what-we-do\/phone\/mobile-services-and-coverage\/mobile-black-spot-programme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPTION: Federal Gippsland MP Darren Chester says more works still needs to be done to fix mobile phone black spots across the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>December 10, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Federal MP Darren Chester says he will be calling for additional mobile phone blackspots to be fixed in Gippsland as part of a national fund established to improve coverage in regional areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said Gippsland had 10 new mobile phone base stations funded under Round One of the programme and there was a strong case to argue for further funding under Round Two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m committed to fixing mobile phone coverage black spots in Gippsland, to improve community safety and business productivity,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[154,436,296,437,438],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}