First crowdsourced data from the National Audit of Mobile Coverage is available

The first chunk of data from a pilot run of the National Audit of Mobile Coverage is now public. It's a program funded by the government and operated by Accenture to try and get real-world signal quality across the country for Telstra, TPG and Optus instead of relying on telco coverage maps that are usually just guesses. The aim is to drive on over 180,000km of roads every year for three years, as well as gather data from "static devices" in 77 locations across the country, "some Australia Post assets" and "crowdsourced" data. Right now only the crowdsourced data is available and the results are what you expect. Telstra has the most coverage (still leaves a lot to be desired IMHO), Optus not that far behind and TPG doing the bare minimum outside of capital cities. Would be nice to get more info on where the crowdsourced data is coming from. Accenture's website doesn't have much data on that.


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