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23 February 20
017 Wirele
W
ess nbn
n – get to kn
now the
t unkno
own
…and jump
p on the be
est fixed wireless
w
se
ervice in the
t world!
A ssurvey of peeople living in areas co
overed by fixxed wirelesss services o
over the nbn
n – indepen
ndently asssessed as th
he equal beest service o
of its type in
n the world ‐ reveals 52
2 per cent d
don’t even kknow it’s available to th
hem. ell Kelly said
d nbn showed that fixed w
wireless tech
hnology, which mainly Staate Corporatte Affairs Maanager Russe
covvers rural an
nd regional areas, is yet to be discoveered by manyy rural users. “This is a servvice capablee of delivering downloaad speeds o
of up to 50 m
megabits peer second and upload o
of p to 20 megabits per seecond. In short – that’ss really fast. Fast enouggh to transform the waay people up
wo
ork, live and
d play. “People who have conne
ected to thee fixed wireless service over the nbn have givven it the bigggest tick fo
or sattisfaction among all ou
ur technologgies. we’ve laid o
out a magnifficent, very tasty banquet and peo
ople haven’’t found it yyet.” “But it’s like w
bout 470,00
00 propertiees currently have accesss to an active fixed wirreless servicce over the nbn Ab
and yet 310,0
000 househo
olds and bu
usinesses accross Austraalia are misssing out on the opportunity to connect. We have been
n tracking the reasons why people arre not signingg up and fou
und: “W
 52 per cent of people had no id
dea they had
d an activated nbn servicce in their areea, ow they need to order a service via aa retail servicce provider,  61 per cent of people don’t kno
ht it was too expensive.
 53 per cent though
Across Austraalia, about a third of eliggible propertties have con
nnected to aa fixed wirele
ess service –– or around “A
160,000 out off a potential 470,000 thaat can.” onte Gouldin
ng is making the most of his nbn fixed
d wireless co
onnection as he lives in G
Geeveston Taasmania, and
d Mo
telecommutes to Scotland for work. onte works ffor LiveCode,, based in Ed
dinburgh, Sco
otland. LiveC
Code's vision is to create a productivee coding Mo
plaatform for bu
uilding poweerful apps thaat are accesssible to everyyone. “I m
made the mo
ove from the
e expensive ccity to a smaall town soutth of Hobart where I’m in
n this beautifful clean environment, aand costs aree a fraction o
of what theyy used to be.
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m getting bigg city speedss but living th
he country dream.” er, visit www
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u For more information on how to order an nbn™ service through a retail serrvice provide
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ore informattion on LiveC
Code is availaable at http:///www.liveco
ode.com/ edia enquiriees: Me
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ussell Kelly Media Hotline [email protected]
u Phon
ne: +61 2 992
27 4200 Mo
obile: 0437100276 *En
nd‐user experrience, includin
ng the speedss actually achiieved on the n
nbn™ networkk, depends on the technolog
gy on which serrvices are delivvered to your premises and
d some factorss outside our ccontrol like eq
quipment quallity, software,, broadband pla
ans, signal reception and ho
ow the end‐usser’s service prrovider design
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