The federal government announced this morning (Wed) that a new licensing policy which will give easy local access to 5G spectrum for internet service providers, businesses and rural, remote and Indigenous communities. A news release from the government says this means being able to have wireless networks deployed in smaller, more geographically targeted areas which could be as small as a single farm, a factory, university campus, shopping centre or a community.

The federal government gives the example of a farm which might use spectrum for a private network for automated operations such as crop tracking or product traceability, which require high levels of bandwidth and network performance.