{accordion}Directory assistance & time::
- 1223 national
- 1225 international
- 1234 personally assisted service to help find the information you need. Information can be read out or sent to a mobile phone
- 1194 time
- 12454 wake up and reminder calls
- www.whitepages.com.au
- www.yellowpages.com.au
||||Area code and international access code::
International access code from overseas is 0011 (charged per second) or 0018 (charged in half hour blocks of time or part thereof)
Dialing sequence for Australia is +61
Area code for The Grove is +7
For example to call from overseas dial 0011 (or 0018) 617 then the local 8 digit phone number
To dial from interstate dial 07 then the local 8 digit phone number.
The time zone for The Grove is Australian Eastern Standard Time (daylight saving does not operate). UTC + 10:00 (Eastern Australia Guam Vladivostok)
||||Public telephones::
All coin and card pay phones and SMS
- 51 McGinn Rd outside Ferny Grove Shopping Village (Taylor’s Seafoods) Ferny Grove
- Ferny Grove Railway Station Conavalla St Ferny Grove
- Ferny Grove Tavern. Samford Rd Ferny Grove
- Ferny Grove Bowls Sports and Community Club Ferny Grove
- 134 Ferny Way outside Ferny Way shops Ferny Hills
- Outside the Patricks Rd Shopping Plaza 170 Patricks Rd Ferny Hills
- 164 Bunya Rd Arana Hills
- 135 Dawson Pde Arana Hills
- Blaker Rd Arana Hills
- Arana Hills Kmart Plaza (one inside near toilets one outside)
- Silvertop St Keperra
- 7 Dallas Pde Keperra
- Great Western Super Centre
- Blue phone in the foyer of The Hills Community Centre Dawson Pde Arana Hills
- 2 emergency phones on FernyGrove Station in case of assault injury vandalism accident fire
||||Telephone exchange::
- 135 Ferny Way cnr Illuta Ave Ferny Hills
||||Internet Cafes and access::
- Arana Library Cobbity Street Ferny Hills
||||Public Fax Machines::
- Ferny Grove News Ferny Grove Shopping Village McGinn Rd
||||Telecom microwave mobile phone towers::
- 164 Upper Kedron Rd above quarry opposite Transfer Station Ferny Grove (Telstra Optus Vodaphone)
- Cnr Ferny Way Illuta Ave Ferny Ave (Telstra Ferny Hills Exchange)
- Cnr Settlement Rd and Samford Rd Keperra
- Grovely Reservoir cnr Dawson Pde and Samford Rd Keperra
- Samford Rd near Dawson Pde Keperra
- K-Mart Plaza Patricks Rd Arana Hills
- Fire Station 1147 South Pine Rd Arana Hills
- Pine Rivers Shire Council Depot 1157 South Pine Rd Arana Hills
- Cnr Caesar Rd & Hutton Rd Ferny Hills
Source: Mashup 2008
Compared to inner city areas we are blissfully low in microwave towers!
||||Cable::
- Power lines and telephone cables and cables for cable TV and broadband are laid underground in The Grove.
- Dial Before You Dig 1100
- Report Damage to Cables 13 2203
- Foxtel
- Upper Kedron is largely unable to access ADSL1 or ADSL2 at this stage. There is a REM box at Cemetery Rd with copper wire from the exchange but there are only 19 ports for homes in Upper Kedron enabling ADSL. There’s a waiting list.
- About 3000 northside premises are to be connected in a roll-out of optic fibre network from 2nd quarter 2011. Upper Kedron wants to be part of it.
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