TEL v TLS

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Telstra are quite up front about their mobile network in Australia covering 2,500,000km2 (PR2019, slide 15)

Spark are less forthcoming about area covered, preferring to speak about the percentage of the population that their network reaches.

The government of New Zealand is currently building a new emergency services communication network.
https://ngcc.govt.nz/public-safety-n...s-and-answers/

In rural areas this will piggy back off existing cell towers, the ones originally owned and operated by Spark and One (or Vodafone as it was then).

The above link tells us that roam across the Vodafone and Spark networks will create a 5% uplift in coverage (a 16,500 square kilometre uplift). We can assume that Spark are already covering the area served by more urban emergency response, and that their coverage is matched by 'One'.

0.05 x (Urban Coverage Area) = 16,500km2 => Urban Coverage Area = 330,000km2
=> total area covered by Spark Mobile Network = 330,000km2 + 16,500km2 = 346,500km2

That means the Spark mobile network covers 350,000km2 in round figures.

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