Draft Five-year spectrum outlook 2025–30 – consultation

The draft Five-year spectrum outlook (FYSO) 2025–30 provides a broad overview of trends that affect spectrum management and factors used to inform the ACMA's planning and spectrum allocation priorities.

It is a key part of our engagement with industry and the community on our spectrum management priorities.

Covering the 5 financial years from 2025–26 to 2029–30, the draft FYSO includes a detailed annual work program, with activities and milestones for the 2025–26 financial year.

The draft FYSO’s focus areas show that we are:

• progressing activities relating to spectrum licences that are due to expire between 2028 and 2032
• advancing the upper 6 GHz band to the implementation stage in the planning process
• working to ensure our regulatory environment facilitates the adoption of low earth orbit satellites
• progressing mobile satellite services allocations in the 1980–2005/2170–2195 MHz bands
• continuing with a significant program of radio planning and allocation activities
• continuing to review a large number of radiocommunications instruments due to sunset.

We expect to publish the final FYSO 2025–30 in the second half of the 2025–26 financial year.

We invite feedback on the draft Five-year spectrum outlook 2025–30.

Use the ‘Make a submission’ button at the top of this page to upload your submission.

Postal details are in the consultation paper.