{"id":259611,"date":"2020-06-13T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T01:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=259611"},"modified":"2020-07-25T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:28:53","slug":"boost-for-kilkivan-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost For Kilkivan Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 13, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.<\/p>\n

Federal Member for Wide Bay Llew O\u2019Brien said the new base station would boost 3G and 4G connections over 35sq km.<\/p>\n

It was jointly funded by the Federal Government and Telstra under the Priority Locations Round (Round 3) of the Mobile Black Spot Program.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a former road crash investigator, I know that mobile phone coverage can save lives in times of emergency, and this improved coverage at Kilkivan means locals and people travelling on the Wide Bay Highway will be safer as a result,\u201d Mr O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new tower delivers on my election commitment and will provide improved mobile phone reception to help local people stay connected to loved ones, and improve opportunities for local businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr O\u2019Brien said the Federal Government had committed $3.4 million under the Mobile Black Spot Program so far in the Wide Bay electorate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the 13th base station to be completed, with others now active and on air at Glastonbury, Kin Kin, Maryborough-Biggenden Road, Widgee, Wooloolga, Maaroom, Pomona-Kin Kin Road, Tansey, Wide Bay Highway at Cinnabar, Windera, Yerra and Poona,\u201d Mr O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":267222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[168],"yoast_head":"\nBoost For Kilkivan Coverage - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boost For Kilkivan Coverage - southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-13T01:40:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-07-25T03:28:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/llewobrien2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/\",\"name\":\"Boost For Kilkivan Coverage - southburnett.com.au\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-13T01:40:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-25T03:28:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\"},\"description\":\"A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/\",\"name\":\"southburnett.com.au\",\"description\":\"Kingaroy and South Burnett News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\",\"name\":\"Anne Miller\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Boost For Kilkivan Coverage - southburnett.com.au","description":"A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Boost For Kilkivan Coverage - southburnett.com.au","og_description":"A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.","og_url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/","og_site_name":"southburnett.com.au","article_published_time":"2020-06-13T01:40:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-07-25T03:28:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":200,"url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/llewobrien2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anne Miller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anne Miller","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/","name":"Boost For Kilkivan Coverage - southburnett.com.au","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-06-13T01:40:49+00:00","dateModified":"2020-07-25T03:28:53+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae"},"description":"A new Telstra base station has been switched on near Kilkivan, improving local mobile phone coverage and safety for motorists on the Wide Bay Highway.","inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/13\/boost-for-kilkivan-coverage\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/","name":"southburnett.com.au","description":"Kingaroy and South Burnett News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae","name":"Anne Miller","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267239,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259611\/revisions\/267239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}