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July 10, 2017
The Federal Government says two-thirds of the NBN broadband network in regional, rural and remote Australia is complete.
Regional Communications Minister Fiona Nash said another 14 per cent was under construction so it would soon be 80 per complete.
“Fixed wireless is a great success story of the NBN. We’ve got 1700 fixed wireless towers around the nation serving more than 180,000 customers,” Ms Nash said.
“More than 500,000 homes and businesses are able to connect to fixed wireless, and speeds will double to 100 megabits a second download and 40 megabits a second upload early next year.
“The fixed wireless build is expected to be mostly complete by the end of 2018.”
She said the Sky Muster satellite service was also improving.
“Labor was to deliver just 35 gigabytes a month of data at peak use times to Sky Muster customers,” Ms Nash said.
“In October, thanks to the Coalition and innovative thinking by NBN Co, Sky Muster customers will be able to buy plans which deliver 100 gigabytes of data a month at peak times and another 150 gigabytes off-peak.
“The second satellite is online and the Sky Muster satellites have now stabilised – there were 90 per cent less outages in April this year than in September last year, and most remaining outages are now localised and last less than five minutes.
“It’s expected most Sky Muster customers will be connected to the service by the end of 2018.”
