Black spot anger: why can't we get phone reception?

By Glen Humphries
Updated March 9 2013 - 12:34am, first published March 8 2013 - 11:00pm
Wollongong councillor Leigh Colacino on Lawrence Hargrave Drive. Picture: ROBERT PEET
Wollongong councillor Leigh Colacino on Lawrence Hargrave Drive. Picture: ROBERT PEET
Port Kembla businessman Kevin Crane took a year  to get the internet connected. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI
Port Kembla businessman Kevin Crane took a year to get the internet connected. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI

The Black Christmas bushfires of 2001 highlighted a serious side to the problems of poor mobile phone coverage in the Illawarra's far north.

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