📋 Tender Overview
Finding collaborative ways to fund improvements to mobile infrastructure services across regional Australia will be the focus of the opening public hearing today 23 November with one of the nations largest telecommunications tower companies Indara Digital Infrastructure.The House Communications and the Arts Committee will hear evidence from Indara for its parliamentary inquiry into coinvestment in regional mobile carrier infrastructure.Committee Chair Mr Brian Mitchell MP outlined the majority of mobile infrastructure was not co-located especially in regional areas. The Committee wants to better understand why the rates of co-location for Australias major mobile providers dramatically decline as they move from urban to regional and remote areas.The Committee will be seeking Indaras views on whether co-investment is the best tool to encourage multiple telecommunications providers in regional areas to invest in and share multi-carrier mobile towers to improve the range and reliability of their services.
