Peri-Urban Mobile Program (PUMP) - Round 1

Created 19/08/2021

Updated 05/03/2025

The Peri-Urban Mobile Program (PUMP) is a grants program that provides funding to improve mobile connectivity in bushfire priority areas along the edges of Australia's major cities. PUMP complements the Mobile Black Spot Program, providing grant funding to mobile network operators and infrastructure providers to deploy new mobile phone infrastructure to address mobile reception and coverage issues in peri-urban areas.

The program targets long standing mobile coverage and reception issues in the peri-urban fringes of Australia's major cities, including on the underserved fringes of large regional cities like Geelong, the Gold Coast, and Newcastle.

The peri-urban fringe is where the bush meets the edges of the suburbs, creating natural disaster risks for those living and working in those areas. These areas have been underserved because of their high cost, difficult terrain and lower population densities.

For more information on PUMP go to https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/pump

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Field Value
Title Peri-Urban Mobile Program (PUMP) - Round 1
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2d8fd693-90eb-4376-81d1-9f720b4dc7dc
Contact Point
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts
GIS-Services@infrastructure.gov.au
Reference Period 13/08/2021
Geospatial Coverage Australia SA0003560
Data Portal Data.gov.au