Federal Member for Lyne Dr David Gillespie said the tower was delivering on the Federal Coalition Government’s election commitment to invest funds to eliminate the mobile blackspot area.

“I’m delighted that both Telstra and Optus have responded with bids to build new towers at both Mount Seaview and Gresford in the latest round of funding under our Mobile Black Spot program,” Dr Gillespie said.

“These two towers will not only service local residents around Mount Seaview and Gresford, but also the many motorists who use the Oxley Highway west of Wauchope and producers and tourists who travel up to the Barrington Tops north of Gresford.”

106 priority locations across Australia will benefit from improved mobile phone coverage. Optus, Telstra and Vodafone will build 102 new base stations under the Priority Location round.

In addition, the carriers have commercial plans for new base stations that will further address mobile black spot issues in a number of the identified locations.

Construction of the new mobile phone towers will get underway soon.

The base station rollout schedules for all three rounds of the program will be available on the Telstra, Optus and Vodafone websites.

More information about the program and a list of the priority locations is available at: communications.gov.au/mbsp