BJCE Australia is open to being a part of the solution, following a Grabben Gullen meeting about poor mobile connectivity last month.
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The meeting, organised by the Grabben Gullen Community Progress Association (GGCPA), aimed to discuss solutions to improving mobile connectivity.
One suggestion was the use of turbine poles for mobile technology.
A spokeswoman for BJCE Australia, which owns 75 per cent of Gullen Range Wind Farm, said the company was not previously contacted by the community with the idea.
“BJCE Australia doesn’t own the land our turbines are constructed on, it is leased. This means we only have rights relating to the wind turbines, not mobile phone towers,” she said.
“We’re not sure what is possible regarding the use of turbines for mounting mobile phone infrastructure, but it could be looked into if it was identified as a way of fixing the problem.
“We’d need to discuss this with the manufacturer of our wind turbines before providing any further information.”
Phone connectivity is a federal government issue, the spokeswoman said.
“We don’t know a lot about mobile phone communications,” she said.
“If there is a way that our wind turbines could be part of the solution then potentially we would consider it, depending on what the proposed solution was.”
