Mourning mother forced to borrow Optus phone to arrange funeral

By Jack Morphet
Updated January 4 2017 - 5:47pm, first published 5:00pm
Andrew Hawthorne scales a silo on his Ardlethan phone to hear his voicemail messages.
Andrew Hawthorne scales a silo on his Ardlethan phone to hear his voicemail messages.

Regular Telstra outages in Ardlethan have hit home for a firefighter and a mother forced to borrow an Optus phone to arrange her son’s funeral.

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