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Farmer who can only get phone reception by standing on fence wants timeline for better mobile coverage

Whenever Lynton Barrett wants to make a phone call from his farm, 18 kilometres from Lameroo in South Australia's Murray Mallee region, he has to climb onto his brick fence. Key points: Lynton Barrett has intermittent phone coverage and wants to know if he should wait for it to improve, or fix it ​​​Telstra will switch off its 3G network in June 2024 Telstra's Michael Patterson says Mr Barrett is located in a 3G network only area, and upgrades will be made in the next 11 months​ The sheep and grain producer has not had a landline for more than eight years and his mobile phone is his only means of making calls. "I need to be told if this is going to get better, because if it's not we're going to have to do something ourselves," Mr Barrett said. "In the short term, a mobile booster and aerial in his vehicle and also his home may help provide an improvement in coverage, as would the use of wi-fi calling inside his home," he said. Mr Patterson said work would be undertaken in the region before Telstra's 3G network was shut off in June next year.

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