Benefits of the NBN
The NBN satellite service is designed to offer a step-change in performance when compared to typical residential satellite services currently available to customers in rural, remote and isolated areas.
Whilst this extra speed provided with the NBN comes a range of new benefits. We have highlighted below some of the areas the NBN will impact and the benefits it will bring.
1. NBN Benefits to the Home
The household is perhaps the biggest area where the NBN will bring benefits.
The home will be open to a range of new entertainment options with improved performance in gaming and the ability to utilise on demand video through Austar and streaming of video and music.
We have already mentioned the benefits the NBN and in particular videoconferencing bring to education and business, but the same benefits can be said for communication with family members. Using PC based video communications software like Skype will allow you to not only speak with your loved ones in other areas of the country (or world) but see them like they were in front of you.
2. NBN Benefits to Education
Schools which previously operated on slow dial-up speeds or competed for limited bandwidth over fibre optics will now have the ability to deliver fast broadband to their classrooms to deliver rich content such as video. Additionally distance education in remote areas can greatly be improved with virtual classrooms and videoconferencing capabilities.
3. NBN Benefits to Business
Whether you be a business communicating with a satellite office in a remote area or a consultant simply looking for a sea-change and choosing to relocate to the bush, the superior speeds the NBN offers makes keeping in contact with the metropolitan head office seamless through the use of videoconferencing.
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