Regional and rural Australians ‘left behind’ by telco services – new report

Jenny Evans/Stringer/Getty The seven million Australians who live and work in regional, rural and remote Australia are being “left behind” by telecommunications services, according to a new report released today by the industry ombudsman. The report comes only weeks after an outage on the Telstra network crippled services across the country. It reveals people living outside the major cities sometimes have to wait months for technicians to fix issues and are unable to contact emergency services…