Bill
Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01. Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-06-22
- second reading — 2017-06-22
- other — 2018-05-09
- second reading — 2018-05-09
- other — 2018-05-10
- second reading — 2018-05-10
- second reading — 2018-05-10
- committee — 2018-05-10
- third reading — 2018-05-10
- introduced — 2018-06-18
- second reading — 2018-06-18
- second reading — 2018-08-13
- second reading — 2018-08-16
- second reading — 2018-08-23
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-06-22.
The bill creates a new tax to fund ongoing support for fixed wireless and satellite broadband in regional Australia.
It would require all carriers to pay a monthly charge for each premises with a fixed line capable of high-speed broadband, with the funds used to cover administrative costs and payments to nbn.
The charge starts at about $7.10 per month per premises, with a base component indexed to inflation and an administrative component set for the first five years, and the total cannot exceed $10 per month.
- Establishes the Regional Broadband Scheme as a sustainable funding mechanism.
- Imposes a charge on carriers for each chargeable premises.
- Provides for the Minister to adjust the charge components via disallowable instruments.
- Requires the ACCC to review the charge components at least every five years.
- Exempts the first 25,000 premises per carrier from the charge for the first five years.
Carriers, nbn, the ACCC, the ACMA, the Department of Communications and the Arts, and consumers of broadband services.
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