PHOTO: Incidents like Optus’ major outage last year would not be covered, but rather emergency disasters that leave people unconnected and unsafe.
Telstra announced this week that they’d trialled the technology that would see mobile users with a different provider connect to their surviving towers – if there were any – in periods of natural disaster, particularly in regional areas.
The major Telco has been working alongside TPG and Optus to develop the technology since late last year, after the Federal Government announced that they would help mobile carriers to make it feasible…