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Australian Broadband Guarantee - for providers

Australian Broadband Guarantee 2008-09 Program

What is the Australian Broadband Guarantee?

The Australian Broadband Guarantee provides all Australian residents with access to affordable metro-comparable broadband services. It offers financial assistance (in the form of incentive payments) to registered internet service providers to supply metro-comparable broadband services to residential and small business premises where such services would not otherwise be available.

The Government has allocated $250.8 million over the next four years to fund the Australian Broadband Guarantee.

The Australian Broadband Guarantee will provide certainty to underserved areas while the National Broadband Network is being rolled out.

The 2008-09 Australian Broadband Guarantee commenced on 4 August 2008.

Comments sought on proposed policy changes to the Australian Broadband Guarantee Guidelines

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy is seeking comments on two proposed policy changes to the Australian Broadband Guarantee Guidelines.

The affected sections are:

  • Section 2.2.4.4 and Section 2.5.1
     The Department is proposing that a provider may be required to repay all or part of the incentive payment they have received for connecting and supplying a customer with a program service where the customer terminates that service and takes up a non-program service supplied by that provider which does not meet the minimum service standards of a program service.
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  • Section 4
     The Department is also proposing to strengthen the requirements on registered providers to offer and market services in a manner that is consistent with the policy objectives of the Australian Broadband Guarantee.

The Department has made other minor changes of an administrative nature to the Guidelines, for example, removing the requirement for the Department to notify providers when the remaining funding allocation reaches $50 million and $30 million from Section 1.3.

All proposed policy changes have been highlighted in yellow.

Comments on the proposed policy changes should be addressed to ABGProviders@dbcde.gov.au and be received by 5.00pm AEST June 29 2009. Any enquiries about submitting comments can also be sent to this email address.

Please direct questions about the guidelines to:

Manager
Australian Broadband Guarantee Section
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Post: GPO Box 2154, Canberra ACT 2601
Courier: 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
Email: abgproviders@dbcde.gov.au

If you are an individual or small business interested in this program, please go to Australian Broadband Guarantee for consumers.

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  • Last modified: 24 June 2009, 2:04pm