The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has called on the government to take action to improve broadband connectivity in regional and rural areas or risk health services in the bush falling further behind the cities.
Labor has promised that it would roll out fibre-to-the-premises to up to two million additional homes and businesses, and phase out the government’s fibre-to-the-node NBN under a broadband policy announced on Monday.
Satellite broadband services – provided by NBN’s Sky Muster – are now being sold by retailers Activ8me, Harbour ISP, and SkyMesh after a successful trial.
NBN switched on an average 10,000 new fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) services per week in the second calendar half of 2014, taking total active connections to 736,000.
The Australian labour market will increase by another 3 million workers in the next 15 years to 2030, according to a new report.