A FRENCH company will launch two satellites to deliver faster broadband speeds to parts of outback Australia that can't access the land-based National Broadband Network (NBN).
Arianespace has won a $300 million contract to build two 777-tonne rockets to send the satellites into geostationary orbit in 2015, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said on Monday.
The satellites will deliver download speeds up to 25 megabytes per second (Mbps) to about 200,000 homes, businesses and farms in remote areas of Australia and its external territories such as Norfolk Island and Christmas Island.
"It will give people in the outback, remote regions and Australia's overseas territories access to economic and social opportunities that the rest of us take for granted," NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley said in a statement.
But while the download speed will be faster than most metropolitan broadband services using the fixed copper network, it will be slower than the top-end 100 Mbps offered over the NBN optic fibre cable.
Currently, remote centres use an interim NBN satellite service with a download speed of six Mbps.
The satellites, worth $620 million, are being built by US firm Space Systems/Loral in California and will connect with 10 ground stations.
The rockets will be launched from French Guiana on the north Atlantic coast of South America.
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