Telstra will not participate as a wholesale provider in the federal government's new AU$878 million subsidised rural broadband scheme, leaving a number of smaller ISPs unable to provide new government-subsidised broadband to the bush without building their own infrastructure.
Regional ISPs should have been better prepared for the demise of the Broadband Connect subscriber subsidy program.
The federal government has allocated an additional AU$20 million to cover a shortfall in funding for the Broadband Connect rural broadband subsidy.
The federal government expects to soon announce how it will allocate the AU$600 million in funding it has put on the table for bush broadband infrastructure projects.
The federal government is considering using some of its AU$3 billion Connect Australia package to aid in the development of a broadband access network in regional Australia.
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