A rocket carrying a satellite worth an estimated half-a-billion Australian dollars (around US$350-million) has successfully launched from French Guiana today. The aim? To bring high-speed broadband access to around 400 000 homes and businesses in remote areas of Australia.
ABC reports that the organisation behind this expensive initiative, the National Broadband Network (NBN), expects to connect 200 000 premises by the second half of next year, including Norfolk, Christmas, Macquarie and Cocos islands.
NBN spokeswoman Frances Kearey told ABC that “It’s one of the world’s largest communication satellites and is purpose-built to deliver broadband to Australia — an incredibly vast country”.
Kearey stressed [...]
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