17/08/2026
Mining communications used to mean UHF radios and a landline to the office.
Now it’s autonomous haulage, real-time machine health, CCTV, access control, IoT sensors and remote ops centres, all sitting on the same network. When it drops, the whole stack drops with it.
And most remote WA and QLD sites aren’t starting from ideal conditions.
No telco coverage. Heat, dust, vibration. Pits and haul roads that shift every few months. Mixed OEMs that were never designed to talk to each other.
For autonomous fleets, this gets sharper again. A black spot isn’t an inconvenience, it’s a stop zone. The network needs to follow the operational footprint of the site, not the other way around.
Our latest blog breaks down what actually matters when designing a mining communications network that holds up in remote operations, from redundancy and hybrid architecture to mobility and what to look for in a partner.
Read it now 👇
https://mtga.com.au/designing-reliable-mining-communications-networks-for-remote-mine-sites/
For anyone who’s designed or specced a network for a remote Tier-2 site, what’s the one thing you’d build in from day one if you were starting again? Redundancy, capacity headroom, better monitoring, or vendor-agnostic architecture?