Telstra urged to 'step up' in services for regional and remote Australians

Telstra has blamed natural disasters for long outages in remote areas of Australia. But does that fully exempt them from blame?

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 servi