Mobile phone coverage

Not sure if this helps?

check on your mobile phone provides website..eg Telstra or Optus but for a trip like that you might want to hire a sat phone or get a HF radio

Cheers

Works at Ceduna, Border Village and Eucla and then a Norseman. Dead the rest of the way

Telstra CDMA will have the most coverage in that area, GSM will only work in the larger towns

Mudness

Having done this trip over a dozen times here it is travelling west:

GSM: Port Augusta, occasional coverage between Port Augusta and Ceduna, after Ceduna nothing until you get to Norseman, then nothing until Kalgoorlie, then patchy until about 100ks out of Perth.

CDMA. Virutally uniterupted (a few blackspots) between Port Augusta and Ceduna, coverage for about another 100ks west of Ceduna. There is coverage around Eucla/Border Village, then nothing until Norseman. Between Norseman and Kalgoorlie will be patchy, and coverage for most of the way between Kalgoorlie and Perth. Fitting a external areial unless it is a giant one, will only give you coverage for another 10-20ks past the edge of handheld coverage, so of limited value.

For this if I am assuming you are with Telstra, if you are with Optus or Vodafone, then grab some tin cans and a piece of string.

Regards

Snowy

I think the others have answered your question well enough. There are also some emergeny phones along the highway - I've got their details somewhere - I'll see if I can find them for you.

Jeff