A/VDSL (website: various providers Telstra, Optus, etc)

• Service Provision Outline. Relatively slow speeds compared to newer wireless offerings - especially in peak times, OK price, excellent data limits, low set up costs, latency can vary. 

• Availability and Limitations. Available now; however, the number of providers offering A/VDSL plans is shrinking (due to providers moving away from expensive ‘copper services’).

Note, if you disconnect your landline/ADSL services, you may not be able to get the services reconnected. 

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NBN satellite (Skymuster)

• Service Provision Outline. Generally OK speeds, but reportedly unreliable speeds especially in peak times, expensive, poor data limits, low setup costs, high latency.

• Availability and Limitations. Available now

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Yless4u 

• Service Provision Outline. Good speeds, good prices for their connecting country community plan, excellent data limits, low setup cost, ok latency.

• Availability and Limitations. Available now, some residents have connected and are happy with speeds however, this requires direct line-of-sight between the service transmission tower and the residence antenna to function correctly. There has been some outages but these are fixed quickly.  

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Starlink

• Service Provision Outline. Good to very good speeds, slightly more expensive than ADSL or Yless4u, excellent data limits, high setup cost, ok latency.

• Availability and Limitations. Available now.

 

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Note: The commercial internet offerings mentioned are not endorsed by the Committee; they have simply been identified as potential alternatives to the status quo for wireless internet services only (and not mobile phone or landline telephony) so only internet-based communications services are on offer (e.g. email, internet, skype, VOIP, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc).