Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Hansard source

sked the Minister representing the Attorney-General, upon notice, on 8 November 2011:

In regard to the spectrum for public safety agencies:

(1) What advice has the department received on the feasibility of providing the 800MHz band to public safety agencies instead of the 700MHz band and can a copy of this advice be provided; if not, why not.

(2) How will the 850-870 portion of the 800MHz band be cleared of the current tens of thousands of narrowband users and over what timeframe.

(3) Why do the terms of reference of the Government's Public Safety Mobile Broadband Steering Committee not allow it to consider both the 700MHz and 800MHz spectrum for public safety before it reports in the first half of 2012.