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Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997 - Determination under paragraph 15(1)(d) No. 1 of 2005

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This determination sets the amount of money the government expects to spend on grants for telephone services in rural and remote areas during the 2004-2005 financial year.

Specifically, the Minister determined that $835,000 is the estimated total for these grants (which are paid under section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 to support the Universal Service Obligation).

Why this matters: This dollar figure is used to calculate annual licence fees that telecommunications carriers (like Telstra, Optus, etc.) must pay to the government. The formula effectively reduces the total fees collected from carriers to account for this grant spending—so the higher the estimated grants, the lower the industry's collective licence fees for that year.

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Commonwealth of Australia

Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997

DETERMINATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 15(1)(d) No. 1 of 2005

I, HELEN LLOYD COONAN, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, under paragraph 15(1)(d) of the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997, determine that the estimated total amount of grants likely to be made during the 2004-2005 financial year under section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 is $835,000.

Dated 31 March 2005.

HELEN COONAN

Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

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