1Telecommunications (Mobile Network Coverage Maps) Direction 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia  

 

Telecommunications (Mobile Network Coverage Maps) Direction 2025

I, Anika Wells, Minister for Communications, make the following direction.

Dated 8 December 2025  

Anika Wells

Minister for Communications

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Direction to the ACMA

6  Application of the standard and other matters

7  Objectives of the standard

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Telecommunications (Mobile Network Coverage Maps) Direction 2025.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences the day after this instrument is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 125AA(4) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 7 of the Act, including the following:

(a) ACMA;

(b) carrier;

(c) carriage service;

(d) carriage service provider;

(e) customer equipment; and

(f)    telecommunications network.

 

  In this instrument:

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

National Audit of Mobile Coverage means the Australian Government initiative, conducted by Accenture Australia, which is independently measuring and mapping the real-world, actual experience of mobile phone coverage and performance across regional and rural Australia.

Relevant Mobile Telecommunications Service means a service (other than a           wi-fi service):

1.     where an end-user can use a carriage service while moving continuously

between places; and

1.     where the customer equipment used for or in relation to the supply of the

service:

1.                   is not in physical contact with any part of the telecommunications network by means of which the service is supplied; and