Mobile Network Hardening Program – Round 3

Overview

The Australian Government is providing $20 million (GST exclusive) for Round 3 of the Mobile Network Hardening Program (the Program) to strengthen the resilience of mobile network communications in regional, remote and peri-urban Australia. The Program provides co-funding to Mobile Network Operators, Mobile Network Infrastructure Providers and Network Management Providers to increase the resilience of mobile telecommunications infrastructure to assist communities during and after a natural disaster or emergency. Round 3 is funding projects located in areas impacted by, or at risk of a natural disaster of the Program, and located in regional and remote Australia and the peri-urban fringe of 19 capital and major regional cities. Round 3 funding will be delivered in two streams: a $10 million (GST exclusive) ‘Regional and Remote Australia’ stream for projects that deliver Resilience Upgrades in regional, remote and very remote Australia; and a $10 million (GST exclusive) ‘Peri-Urban Fringe’ stream for projects that deliver Resilience Upgrades in the peri-urban fringe of capital and major regional cities. Round 3 of the Program is funded from the Government’s Better Connectivity Plan for Regional and Rural Australia.