Business communications in Sarina

Sarina sits 38 kilometres south of Mackay on the Bruce Highway, built around the Plane Creek Sugar Mill, which has been crushing cane since 1896 under Wilmar Sugar Australia. Next to the mill is the distillery that is the largest producer of ethanol from sugarcane in Australia. The mill's supply chain, cane transport operators and local contractors all depend on phones and internet that stay up through the crush.

The coast side of Sarina is coal. The Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay terminals lie about 20 kilometres northeast and together handle tens of millions of tonnes a year, with Hay Point among the largest coal ports in the world. That brings haulage, logistics and services businesses whose depot and transport offices cannot afford to lose the network, so we build in reliable lines and 4G or 5G failover where it matters.

Our crew runs south to Sarina on a regular schedule, which means next day response on most work. Office moves, new data cabling runs, comms rooms and dead points get handled on the weekly run rather than as a costly one-off trip, and enquiries are answered within 24 business hours.

The southern beaches, Sarina Beach, Armstrong Beach, Grasstree Beach and Campwin Beach through to Hay Point, carry salt-laden air that corrodes cheap terminations. Sarina also sits in cyclone wind Region C, where Cyclone Debbie damaged about 20 percent of the district's cane in 2017, so external comms mounts get cyclonic rated, corrosion resistant hardware.