Crown opens tender for $150m rural broadband top-up — and ratepayers could again be on the hook
As with UFB 2.0, councils are being encouraged to partner with telcos – and to sweeten the pot with matching funds or other incentives as they compete for a slice of the $150m up for grabs | Adams encourages smaller players to bid against incumbents
Thu, 27 Oct 2016
Tenders have opened for $100 million to extend rural broadband and $50 million to cover mobile network blackspots in remote rural areas and tourist spots*.
It’s not included in the PR but a signature feature of the request for proposals is that, as with the $210 million top-up for the urban UFB
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