Pete Manwaring
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But there's a couple of faults, particularly the one you just mentioned, where...
where it's damaged and we can't tell remotely if it's faulty.
So yeah, 100% we support people either calling in on our payphone fault number or as you said, maybe through the game.
But as far as I know, I don't think we've got any reports from Vax around that.
So I might have to follow that up.
Yeah, 100%.
We have out of our fleet of just shy of 14,000, we've now โ
migrated about 8,000 to using the 4G backhaul or Starlink backhaul in remote areas where there's no 4G.
And so that's an ongoing program at work where we're slowly migrating them off copper onto, which obviously with the copper shutdown, we have to do that.
But the benefit of that is like, you know, we're about to kick off a program to upgrade about 1,500 of our Wi-Fi pay phones, which are running on ADSL.
Now, you know, I'm sure you especially would understand that.
It's a pretty poor quality service, but we're about to invest heavily and put 4G back all on new Wi-Fi on those sites so they'll get much better speeds.
But I guess to that point, the Wi-Fi on the payphones is never meant to be
for people like you and I. It truly is designed for the vulnerable and the disadvantaged.
So, you know, it's about them accessing those government services which are increasingly being shifted onto digital-only, you know, access.
And so giving them those opportunities is pretty key.
Yeah.
Oh, it's hard to justify.
for the network, not all of it, but it's a good contribution.
And that's on the voice network only.