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ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead
The ACCC has cleared, provisionally, the proposed deal between Optus and NBN Co under which Optus is to be paid around $800m to shut down its HFC network and transfer customers onto the NBN. read moreDiscussion paper on Govt's rural mobile comms subsidies
Stuart Corner
Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:29
The Government says that, over the past seven years, it has provided funding of more than $145 million to set up nearly 1000 new mobile phone towers in regional towns and along highways.
Releasing the discussion paper, communications minister, senator Helen Coonan, said: "Mobile Connect will extend the existing Satellite Phone Subsidy Scheme which offers up to $1500 to people who live or work in areas without terrestrial mobile phone coverage for the purchase of a satellite phone, but we are looking for an innovative new design for other elements of Mobile Connect.
"We would like to move away from the population methodology used in previous funding models and support rural areas that might have a small, permanent population but attract a bigger, transient population because of work and tourism. "We also want to look at improving mobile phone coverage along highways primarily for safety reasons."
The discussion paper is available at www.dcita.gov.au/mobileconnect. Submissions close on 31 January 2006.
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