Original article by Ronald Mizen
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 11-Feb-26

The Australian Communications & Media Authority has proposed charging telcos a combined $7.2bn to renew spectrum licences that are slated to expire between 2028 and 2032. ACMA had previously proposed charging Telstra, Optus, TPG Telecom and NBN Co between $5bn and $6.2bn in total for renewing their licences; it has attributed the higher price to factors such as changes to methodology and benchmarking. Telstra’s share of the revised fee would be about $2.7bn, but the telco estimates that its fair share is $1.4bn; it has warned that the cost of the new pricing regime would be passed on to customers via higher mobile phone bills.

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AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY, TELSTRA GROUP LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPG, NBN CO LIMITED