Ready to connect to Sky Muster Satelitte

May 17, 2016
2 min read

THERE is light at the end of the tunnel for Tansey's Melissa Boully, who will now finally be able to connect to the NBN after struggling with slow satellite internet speeds.

While in the midst of drought Mrs Boully had to develop a second income, and started an online marketing business.

"Drought set in very shortly after we moved to Tansey, I had to develop a second income and set up a business from home and started designing websites from Tansey," she said.

She said her access to internet speeds had affected her growing business.

"I have a lot of clients on the books and I can't work fast enough," she said.

Mrs Boully also has two school aged children, and has to limit their internet access so the current satellite data limit is not exceeded.

"When they come home from school with links to school-based learning, I would like them to have unlimited access to learning and education," she said.

NBN successfully launched its first commercial broadband satellite services for rural, regional and remote Queenslanders last week.

After launching into space on October 1 last year, the satellite ground stations underwent technical testing and user trials ahead of the commercial launch.

The service is expected to provide wholesale speeds significantly faster than those currently used now to about 400,000 premises across Australia, with about 92,000 of those in Queensland.

NBN chief customer officer John Simon said the Sky Muster satellite was designed to provide access to fast broadband for many areas that had never had it before.

He said it would take technicians some time to get all eligible premises connected, due to the sheer size of the country that had to be covered.

The Sky Muster will deliver wholesale speeds of up to 25/5Mbps and 150GB of data a month.

To see if you can connect to the Sky Muster go to www.nbnco.com.au