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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has personally phoned the Queensland government to congratulate it on a multi-million dollar contract involving the software giant.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
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