Residents in the Gulf of Carpentaria continue to suffer the consequences of poor internet services. The region relies on Telehealth, which is often unreliable, resulting in residents\u2019 connections continually dropping during appointments.<\/p>\n
Telehealth isn\u2019t the only area where residents suffer, however: businesses can\u2019t use EFTPOS, remote learning isn\u2019t possible, and meetings can\u2019t happen\u2026<\/p>\n
The community welcomes the government and NBN\u2019s $750m investment, which promises faster internet speeds in rural communities.<\/p>\n
Kristy Sparrow from the Better Internet for Rural, Regional & Remote Australia, who has spent eight years lobbying the federal government, says that the cash boost will\u00a0\u201cprovide more transparent, effective internet plans for regional and remote families.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Yet many believe that it will not be enough to\u00a0\u201cbridge an outback digital divide that has been years in the making\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and warn that it\u00a0\u201cisn\u2019t a silver bullet solution.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n While some question the timing of the funding, just prior to the federal election, Sparrow nonetheless believes it will be transformative for remote regions. The upgrade promises to deliver faster internet speeds to bush communities, expand access to the NBN\u2019s fixed wireless service and provide unmetered data allowances to Sky Muster customers, who rely on two geostationary communications satellites operated by NBN.<\/p>\n Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde also praises the funding. However, he also acknowledges that much more is needed to\u00a0\u201cmap the black spots, the uncovered areas, the marginal areas of the service footprints.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The need for increased digital literacy in remote regional areas remains more critical than ever.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Residents in the Gulf of Carpentaria continue to suffer the consequences of poor internet services. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,6],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-avada","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resolvit.dev\/vma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}