Mobile Black Spot Program Round 8—Project Noticeboard

Sandstone is located 150 kilometres east of Mt Magnet and 150 kilometres west of the town of Leinster. This road is a major tourist and transport route between the northern Goldfields and the port of Geraldton.

There has been several deaths and numerous truck accidents on this road in the past 18 months. There is one mobile tower near this road close to the town of Sandstone.

This tower is subject to regular outages leaving no mobile coverage in the town of Sandstone nor on the 300 kilometres between Mt Magnet and Leinster.

What is required is at least one new tower for the town of Sandstone and two towers east and west of the townsite.

Continued poor coverage in Cardup, which is within proximity of some of the fastest growing suburbs in WA, being Byford and Mundijong.

As the fastest growing outer areas in metropolitan Perth and Peel, reliable and stable mobile data is not available as the urban front advances south in Byford, and opens up to the north in Mundijong.

It is essential to address this data need before development encroaches on the most suitable sites to house such infrastructure, and also to address the extreme risk of bushfire in this area. Coordinates = 32.25702° S, 115.95460° E