Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy has got himself involved in a dispute between people living and working around a proposed location for a new Telstra mobile network antenna.

The Mobile Carriers Forum is calling for new rules that would require local and state governments to review carriers' plans for new tower facilities within 150 days, or let them pass un-amended.

The Mobile Carriers Forum (MCF) - the body representing Australia's cellular network operators - has written to the Tasmanian Government warning that its planning rules could see the carriers winding back network upgrade plans.

The NSW Government says it will amend the state planning system "to fast-track delivery by the Federal Government of broadband Internet to homes and businesses across metropolitan and regional NSW."

The Mobile Carriers Forum, the industry body representing Australia's cellular operators, is calling on the NSW Government to scrap its policy requiring mobile phone base stations to be kept 500 metres from schools, describing it a "fundamentally flawed".