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With the closure of 3G and Vodafone more than doubling its rural coverage, regional mobile services have changed substantially in the last 14 months, and this summer’s bushfires will likely be in some ways a test case for how resilient the networks perform under emergency situations.

Rural mobile networks in summer in life after 3G

IT’S barely 14 months since the closure of the 3G network late in 2024, and already the nature of mobile phone connectivity in regional areas looks substantially different.

20 January, 2026

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