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OPTUS has started work on a new phone tower at Brimpaen.
The project is part of the federal government’s mobile blackspot program.
Representatives on behalf of Optus approached property owners in the area in August 2016, to find a suitable suit for a new phone tower.
Horsham Rural City Council approved a planning permit for the tower last year.
An Optus spokesman said construction – including the transmission build – started this month.
“ The team have plans for the site to be completed in June,” he said.
The mobile tower will provide 4G and 3G services to people in the Laharum, Brimpaen and Wartook areas.
Meanwhile, a community lunch at Laharum on Thursday celebrated the launch of a Telstra mobile tower in the Wartook Valley.
The tower – also funded through the mobile blackspot program – was completed and switched on last month.
The project came after years of community and government lobbying, particularly in the wake of the Grampians fires in 2014 when communication issues in the Wartook Valley area were exposed.