Areas such as Rossarden will receive long-awaited mobile coverage as part of the Mobile Black Spot Program.

The federal government has poured $160 million into the initiative, which is now in its second round of delivery.

"Almost 500 new or upgraded mobile base stations will be built across regional and remote Australia, covering a total of 3000 mobile black spots from the more than 6000 black spots nominated by the public," Communications Parliamentary Secretary Paul Fletcher said.

"The program has delivered substantial competitive benefits, with both Telstra and Vodafone granted funding to build new or upgraded base stations.

"In addition, the mobile network operator selected to build a base station must give the other mobile network operators the opportunity to co-locate on that base station."

Lyons Liberal MHR Eric Hutchinson said mobile coverage was a serious issue in his electorate.

"I want to thank the councils in Lyons for their help on this, and I want to thank Telstra and Vodafone for their support for regional and remote communities in my electorate," Mr Hutchinson said.

"Working out how to tackle the mobile black spot issue in Lyons was a really comprehensive process and complicated matrix, but was so important to the community."

He said feedback received by residents in the area showed mobile connection was more important to them than the NBN.

Mr Fletcher said fixed-wireless NBN infrastructure could be fitted to the new base stations, which otherwise may not have been constructed without the federal grants.