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What is the Australian Broadband Guarantee?

The Australian Broadband Guarantee provides all Australian residents with access to affordable metro-comparable broadband services. The program offers financial assistance (in the form of incentive payments) to registered internet service providers to supply metro-comparable broadband services to residential and small business premises where such services would not otherwise be available.

The Australian Government has allocated $270.7 million over the next four years to fund the Australian Broadband Guarantee. It has also committed to establish the National Broadband Network to provide high-speed broadband services to 98 per cent of the population.

The Australian Broadband Guarantee will provide certainty to underserved areas while the Network is being rolled out and for the estimated two per cent of the population that may not be served by this network.

The 2008–09 Australian Broadband Guarantee program will commence on 4 August 2008.

If you want to find out if you are eligible to apply for the Australian Broadband Guarantee, click on Australian Broadband Guarantee—for consumers.

If you are a registered provider seeking further information or an ISP interested in becoming a registered Australian Broadband Guarantee provider, click on Australian Broadband Guarantee—for providers.

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• Last modified: 1 July 2008, 5:05pm