More satellites needed to get NBN to rural areas: Coutts
Coutts Communications has come out strongly in favour of more satellites over Australia to aid the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout to remote areas.
Coutts Communications has come out strongly in favour of more satellites over Australia to aid the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout to remote areas.
Communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has announced the reappointment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) chairman, Chris Chapman.
The increasingly apparent split between the financially attractive urban fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout and the obligatory wireless and satellite deployments to rural and regional areas under the National Broadband Network (NBN) may effectively and operationally split its wholesaler, NBN Co, in two.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) South Australia branch chair, Reg Coutts, has hit back at claims of poor timing surrounding the appointment of NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, as an honorary member of the industry representative body.
Big question marks still hang over how the seven to 10 per cent of the Australian population not covered by optical fibre under the National Broadband Network (NBN) will receive high-speed broadband.