Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications

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The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications (DITRDC) is a department of the Australian government .

history

The department was founded on January 31, 2020 from the amalgamation of the following ministries:

  • Department of Communications and the Arts
  • Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development

Predecessor terms

One of the previous ministries was the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE; German: Ministry for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy ), the last minister of which was Stephen Conroy .

The DBCDE was responsible for politics, legislative reforms, convergence and programs on the national broadband network , dynamic spectrum management , digital television , the Australian post office and telecommunications , television policy, regional communications and internet security.

The DBCDE, in turn, was the successor to the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA), which was dissolved after Kevin Rudd was elected Prime Minister of the Australian Labor Party in 2007. Responsibility for the arts was transferred to the new “Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts” and responsibility for sport to the “Department of Health and Aging”.

The DBCDE promoted the Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme (HiBIS), a strategy to supply the Australian population with Internet broadband lines and subsidized Internet providers to set up high-quality broadband lines in regionally weak, agriculturally structured and remote areas, so that the same bandwidths as there become available in the metropolises.

In June 2007, the Department announced that by June 2009 it would provide 99% of the Australian population with broadband through an Australia Connected initiative . With this concept, it was possible to realize that 12 MB line became available via ADSL2 and fiberglass lines and via radio and a guarantee was given for this, which ended on June 30, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dbcde.gov.au: About Us ( Memento of November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ dcita.gov.au: Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme (HiBIS) ( Memento of March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ dbcde.gov.au: Australian Broadband Guarantee ( Memento of October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).