All outdoor areas of Australia would have mobile coverage by 2027 under laws proposed by Labor.
While Australia has previously had a universal service obligation for landlines and payphones, it has not extended to mobile phone coverage.
Laws setting up the requirement would be introduced to parliament later in 2025, with the mobile obligation to focus at first on SMS and phone calls. The universal service could be expanded to include mobile data in the future as technology improves.
Would this be using Starlink? To reduce relying on a third party, would telcos be launching their own LEO constellations?
My first thought reading the headline:
“Please don’t be Starlink, Please don’t be Starlink, …”
given how they’ve recently threatened to revoke a foreign nation’s access as hard pressure in trade agreements, it would be fucking lunacy