The Australian Government is providing $1.2 million (GST exclusive) for the targeted Perth Hills Round to upgrade battery back-up power to at least 20 hours and install Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) at up to 23 mobile telecommunications infrastructure sites in the Perth Hills region of Western Australia.

The Perth Hills Round of the Program provides co-funding to Mobile Network Operators and Mobile Network Infrastructure Providers to upgrade battery back-up power reserves to at least 20 hours and/or install Automatic Transfer Switches at up to 23 mobile telecommunications infrastructure sites in the Perth Hills. The Perth Hills Round is funding projects located in the Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Serpentine,Jarrahdale, Armadale, Mundaring, Kalamunda, and Swan, which comprise the Perth Hills for the purposes of the Program.

To be eligible to apply for funding under the Perth Hills Round of the Program, you must have an Australian Business Number (ABN), and be a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) or Mobile Network Infrastructure Provider (MNIP). For the purposes of the Program:

• an MNO means a company that supplies a public mobile telecommunications service within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) and holds an apparatus or a spectrum licence (or both) for the supply of public mobile telecommunications services under the Radiocommunications Act 1992 (Cth); and,
• an MNIP means a company that provides communications infrastructure in Australia that supports the provision of public mobile telecommunications services in regional and remote Australia or the peri-urban fringe of capital and major regional cities and is used by one or more MNOs.

• Email: MNHP@communications.gov.au