Australia Adopting Nationwide D2D Coverage
The Australian government is mandating universal outdoor mobile coverage for voice and SMS texting across the nation, with direct-to-device satellite connectivity to be a huge part of the coverage. Announcing the goal this week, Australia set an implementation deadline of…
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late 2027. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the country's universal outdoor mobile obligation "will improve public safety, increase resilience during natural disasters, and provide an extra layer of coverage in areas previously thought too difficult or costly to reach. The experience will be different to land mobile networks, but the benefits transformative, particularly for a large continent such as ours."