Australia plans digital dividend auction in April 2013

News Wireless Australia 20 JUN 2012
Australia plans digital dividend auction in April 2013
The Australian communications ministry has planned the auction for digital dividend in April 2013. The date has been decided on the advice of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which believes that the date would maximise product certainty for bidders prior to the auction and provide new licensees with adequate lead time to plan and deploy networks before their licenses commence. The digital dividend auction includes spectrum in the 700 MHz band as well as spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band. This spectrum will become available mainly as a result of the switch to digital-only television broadcasting by the end of 2013. The communications ministry is working with the ACMA and the broadcasting industry to implement a restack of the spectrum, which is expected to be completed by 31 December 2014.

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Mobile

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ACMA,  Australian Communications and Media Authority

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Australia

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Government telecommunications licensing, Wireless

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