Outstation health services are without mobile connection putting lives at risk after a week long shut down from Telstra.
Lives are at risk in remote Northern Territory communities because of a week-long phone network shutdown that began without warning and left outstation health services without communications, a health chief has warned. The Ampilatwatja community, northeast of Alice Springs, is without mobile connection after Telstra shut down its 3G network on Saturday and temporarily turned off 4G connectivity until this Friday to carry out upgrades.
"Telstra have not taken the community safety into consideration at all in their decision-making." Mr Coulstock said there was no prior warning of the 4G outage and he made contact with the Indigenous liaison representative when the service was still out on Monday. "And his response was, 'well, it's going to be a minor convenience, but there's nothing we can do about it'," he said.
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