The window has closed for regional and rural councils to point out their mobile black spots.

Six thousand locations have been nominated as having inadequate mobile coverage under the first stage of the Australian Government's $100 million Mobile Black Spot Program, with an interactive map of those locations accessible online. 

The nomination process was open to the community members, group and councils.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher said the volume of locations is evidence of strong community demand for improved mobile phone coverage in outer metropolitan, rural and regional Australia.

Locations on the database may now be the subject of proposals for new or enhanced mobile base stations.

Mr Fletcher claims that between 250 and 300 new mobile phone base states will be built under the program.

The final location for the base stations will be chosen via a competition selection process, designed to allocate funding to locations which will deliver the greatest benefit in terms of new coverage, he said.

In its submission, the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) argued that those in rural and remote areas should have access to the same level of telecommunications services as their urban counterparts, and it was important to improve mobile coverage in areas prone to natural disasters.