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Mobile phones on national highways
Print this pageThe Mobile Phones on Highways initiative provided $25 million to facilitate continuous mobile phone service for the maximum number of users (regardless of where they normally do business or reside) along a number of major Australian highways. There are 9425km of designated highways covering areas within the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria (see table below).
Funding for this initiative was allocated from the Social Bonus Package, funded by the second partial sale of Telstra.
Following a competitive tender process the contract was awarded to Vodafone on 23 April 2001.
Vodafone completed the rollout of new infrastructure in June 2003, and is required to continue to provide the services for a period of five years, i.e. until June 2008.
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Designated highway |
Length |
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Highway One from Port Douglas to Adelaide via Cairns , Brisbane, Sydney, Eden, Melbourne, Mt Gambier and Murray Bridge |
4657 km |
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Melbourne to Brisbane via the Hume, Newell and Cunningham Highways |
1667 km |
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Melbourne to Adelaide via the Western and Dukes Highways |
733 km |
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Sydney to Brisbane via the F3, New England and Cunningham Highways |
1016 km |
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Sydney to Adelaide via the Hume and Sturt Highways |
1439 km |
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Sydney-Melbourne via the Hume Highway |
863 km |
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Hobart to Burnie via the Midland and Bass Highways |
345 km |
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Canberra-Goulburn and Canberra-Yass via the Federal and Barton Highways |
172 km |
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Total end-to-end length for Designated Highways |
10,892 km |
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Total length of Designated Highways without overlap |
9,963 km |
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- Last modified: 6 February 2008, 1:50pm