Telstra's Signal Coverage Just Shrank on Paper—Here's Why It Matters

Australia's phone regulator changed how it measures mobile signal strength, which officially shrunk Telstra's coverage area by about one million square kilometres. Telstra charges $16 more monthly than rivals, claiming better reliability. But recent stumbles—fines for misleading customers, a network outage—weaken that argument and raise questions about whether the higher price still holds up.