Police have now released CCTV footage of a person they ‘wish to speak with’ about the Mullumbimby Telstra tower fire in March 2022. 

Councillors Warren Polglase (Conservative) and James Owen (Liberal) were quick to move and second the motion to approve a 30.5m Telstra tower at Kingscliff to be used as a mobile phone base station facility at the most recent Tweed Shire Council meeting. 

It was with shock that I heard my mobile phone ring early Sunday evening, it had been a while...

There was a significant police presence at the Mullumbimby Telstra tower facility as its restoration commenced. Other police stopped and swabbed drivers entering and exiting the town.

Telstra customers in Mullumbimby were left without service since March 18 following what has been labeled an arson attack on the Telstra tower, adding to the already stressful post-flood clean-up and rebuild.

Telstra says they are ‘making progress reconnecting communities in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales following severe storms during the week’.

Byron Shire Council staff have recommended that a controversial application from Telstra to build a 4G mobile phone tower on Wilsons Creek Road be refused.