Gwydir Shire Mayor Tiffany Galvin has met with Telstra representatives to discuss recent communication outages in the shire.
Mayor Galvin says Council were given a clearer understanding of the current infrastructure challenges, particularly congestion issues which continually affect their towns and villages, blaming limited band spectrum for the issues which Telstra says is a major contributor to the poor quality of service many of are experiencing.
During discussions, Mayor Galvin confirmed Telstra representatives were still unable to give any dates for upgrades to the towers at Bingara, Warialda, Gravesend, and Copeton Dam but acknowledged that there is an issue with the power backup at the Bingara tower with representatives advising that the back-up issue involves a software fault and that their technicians were working on a fix, although it is still in the early stages and again no date was given.
She says Telstra had previously indicated that the Bingara tower was due for an upgrade in the last quarter of this year, and that they are now treating it as a priority due to ongoing power reliability concerns.
