Strengthening Telecommunications Against Natural Disasters - Temporary telecommunications infrastructure deployment

Overview

The grant opportunity was announced as part of the Strengthening Telecommunications Against Natural Disasters program. Up to $7.7 million is available for this grant opportunity. The objectives of the program are to: increase and improve telecommunications resilience in communities recently affected by severe bushfires or at risk of natural disasters in the future enhance the capability to restore services to areas affected by bushfires or natural disasters by quickly deploying temporary facilities to address gaps caused by outages.  The maximum grant amount is $7.7 million. You must complete your project by 30 April 2022. Your project must be aimed at purchasing portable telecommunications facilities, which support connectivity and address outages caused by bushfires or natural disasters including: cells on wheels satellite supported cells on wheels mobile exchanges on wheels NBN Road Muster trucks portable satellite kits We may also approve other activities.