Outpacing the city slickers!

The improved upload speed on offer is designed to enable our end-users to upload photos, videos or other content to the internet.

Levelling the playing field

Our regional and rural broadband users are not only receiving faster speeds than their counterparts in most other global markets – even in many developed markets rural and regional areas are critically under served by broadband – they are also able to access ample data allowances from our RSP partners.

While fixed wireless broadband end-users in many markets around the world get miniscule data allowances – often around 10GB per month. Our fixed-wireless end-users here can access monthly data allowances of up to 250GB per month through some internet service providers – enough to watch 250 hours of streaming video per month!

The increased speeds will also be great news for schools and businesses in regional areas, enabling them to do a whole lot more with their NBN connection.

The Next Step

Our fixed wireless pilot is expected to run for the next few months with a full commercial launch of the service scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015. That’s when subscribers will be able to contact their service provider if they wish to continue having access to a higher speed service.

The launch of the 25-50Mbps/5-20Mbps service – along with the continuing expansion of our fixed wireless footprint – is another example of NBN Co’s commitment to close the digital divide between regional and urban Australia.

Gavin Williams is General Manager Fixed Wireless and Satellite at NBN Co.