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Government urged to 'bite the bullet' and mandate mobile phone roaming
The mobile tower at Ladysmith provides 4G coverage for Telstra customers only. (ABC News: Lauren Pezet)
Communications consumer group ACCAN has released a report calling for domestic roaming to be mandated in Australia.
It argues that roaming has helped drive down prices in other countries and that it would help provide better mobile access, particularly for regional Australians.
The competition regulator acknowledged there had been several technical and regulatory changes since it last looked at the issue in 2017, and that it was monitoring market conditions.
Calls are growing for domestic roaming to be mandated in Australia, with advocates claiming it would help give mobile users better access and more competitive prices.
Clare Rowe on Credlin Sky News Australia – 8 July 2026
Hi, plenty of news to get through today. So let’s make a start with our Wednesday panel, senior fellow at the Menzies Research Institute, Nick Cater, and adolescent psychologist and Sky News contributor Clare Rowe. Welcome to you both. Let’s start with this Telstra outage this morning. Not many parts of Australia were left unaffected, and it’s moments like this that really exposes our vulnerability and our dependency on telcos. Nick, we saw the damage that was done when the Optus network went down, lives were lost. What does the government need to do to ensure that it can stay ahead of outages like this?
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Tune Talk Launches E-Roaming Prepaid Plan With Seamless Global Connectivity
International travel has long come with a quiet trade-off. The moment a traveller lands, their digital life narrows. Data becomes finite. Speeds slow. Connectivity turns into a calculation.
Asia’s fastest-growing fully cloud native Mobile Network Operator has launched Tune Talk E-Roaming (Enhanced Roaming). In a bold departure from traditional telco models, the breakthrough prepaid service allows subscribers to take their entire domestic data allocation abroad at full speed, roam seamlessly with no additional charge.
For the first time, Malaysian prepaid customers can use their smartphones across borders exactly as they do at home—instantly auto-connecting upon landing without the need to purchase restrictive travel passes, activate secondary eSIMs.
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