{"id":84793,"date":"2011-05-27T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nbn-co-steps-up-satellite-plans-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T21:41:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:41:26","slug":"nbn-co-steps-up-satellite-plans-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nbn-co-steps-up-satellite-plans-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"NBN Co Steps Up Satellite Plans in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-27-11]&nbsp;<b>NBN Co <\/b>released more detailed criteria for potential rural and remote users of its interim satellite service in Australia on May 26.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The company says where high-demand exists, first priority will be given to those who have no access to alternate broadband services, subject to a service qualification process. Given the number of remote communities in Australia, satellite will play a key role in bringing broadband across the country.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NBN Co has also called for expressions of interest from retail service providers that would like to purchase wholesale satellite services to resell to eligible rural and remote customers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The company has the responsibility to design, build and operate the wholesale-only National Broadband Network (NBN). The Australian government has shown a progressive attitude towards using satellite technology to reducing the digital divide across the country. This follows an announcement earlier this month where NBN Co said it plans to offer a wholesale interim satellite service capable of peak download speeds up to 6 Mbps, to be available via participating retail service providers, following the signing of contracts with <b>Optus<\/b> and <b>IPStar<\/b>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under the interim satellite service, the satellite equipment and installation will be provided by NBN Co, at no cost to the end-user customer for a standard installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-27-11]&nbsp;NBN Co released more detailed criteria for potential rural and remote users of its interim satellite service in Australia on May 26. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The company says where high-demand exists, first priority will be given to those who have no access to alternate broadband services, subject to a service qualification process. Given the number of remote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}