When Will Picker broke his back on his NSW farm there was no mobile phone reception – so he crawled for 1km

For some residents in rural Australia, there is no way to call for help. One federal MP says telcos are letting them down when they most need it

Last year, Hannah Sparks got a call from her partner Will Picker telling her he had an accident, but before he could give her any more details of what had happened or where he was, they lost the phone connection.

Picker had been mustering sheep on his motorbike bike coming down a steep rise on their farm just outside Bigga in southern NSW when his front tyre got stuck in a wombat hole. He was thrown over the bike and fractured two vertebrae.

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