Once every three years the Department of Broadband, Communications & the Digital Economy (DBCDE) undertakes a Regional Telecommunications Review, which considers whether people in regional, rural and remote parts of Australia have equitable access to telecommunications.

If your organisation is based in regional Australia, or you live in regional Australia, we’d love to hear your views via this short survey by 4 November 2011.

The survey is based around the Review's five key issues of focus:

• telecommunication issues affecting small businesses in regional Australia;
• telecommunications needed to improve health and education in regional areas;
• communications needs of Indigenous people and communities;
• developments in the terrestrial and satellite mobile phone sector; and
• consumer issues.

Your participation in this survey will assist ACCAN in prioritising the telecommunication issues of most concern to people in regional Australia. Click here to begin.