For anyone who has ever had a phone call drop out or the internet run slow spare a thought for the tiny northern New South Wales town of Come By Chance.

For the last six years residents in the town of 115 people have been struggling with regular landline and internet disruptions.

The landline and internet services run off a mobile phone tower, and have suffered outages of up to a week long.

Locals say the disruptions are affecting their businesses and are a major inconvenience.

Each time the phone goes out, farmer Lara Hawke bundles her one and three-year-old children into the car to drive to the nearest major centre of Walgett.

"We basically rely on an unreliable service. We're supplied by a tower that's constantly having outages," she said.

"Our trip is 140 kilometres (but) there are others that are driving 200 kilometres to report the phone out, most of them are dirt roads, and when we're flooded we can't drive anywhere."

Together with her husband Ben Hawke, they operate a 7000 acre cattle and crop farm.

Mr Hawke says the outages are affecting business.

"We've missed opportunities and there's a big impact on logistics if you can't get hold of trucks and you have to travel to find someone with a copper-lined phone to get more trucks to come out," he said.

"Your whole harvest can get completely held up."

Other businesses have suffered too.

Anne Gorman has had problems with her phone and internet service since she took over the Come By Chance store two months ago.

"You can ring people in the district but they seem to be engaged all the time it becomes a bloody nuisance it really does," she said.

"If something happened out here and there was an accident what do you do? How do you fix it?"

In one incidence earlier this year, a local woman hurt her legs after she fell from her her quad bike, but her family was unable to phone for help. She eventually got to the hospital.

Anne Gorman has recently taken over the local store. ( ABC News: Liv Casben )

Lara Hawke says lack of access to help is a real worry.

"If something happened and we weren't able to get medical attention and we needed it..." she said.

"After six years or seven years of saying this is not working, and not getting any response or anything fixed from Telstra, words can't describe it."

But Telstra says something has been done, with regular attempts to fix the base station that the area relies on.

In February representatives also met with more than 30 locals to try to find a solution.

"Servicing and maintaining the remote Berkley Downs site serving Ms Hawke has posed significant challenges as the base station is susceptible to lightning strikes and is usually inaccessible in wet weather," a Telstra spokesperson said.

"We can confirm that signal strengths in the area are in line with published coverage maps, noting that coverage can and does vary with local environmental conditions including vegetation, terrain, building clutter, and weather."

But for Ben Hawke that has not eased the frustration.

"In 1890 you would have been able to ride a horse to Come By Chance Post Office and send a telegram to Malcolm Turnbull's office in Sydney and send him a telegram quicker than I can send him and email now," he said.

The Federal Government says it has committed $100 million to improving mobile coverage in regions across Australia.