How will the design of the NBN Co satellite service differ from existing satellite services?
NBN Co’s next generation satellites will be purpose-built to provide high-speed broadband for the Australian population, and not splitting capacity between a number of other tasks like satellite phones and broadcast television, and not focused on providing services in other countries. The NBN Co satellites will have multiple focussed high-capacity beams that maximise spectral usage. NBN Co will also use the next generation of ground equipment and acceleration techniques to maximise performance. Satellites will form part of the NBN Co integrated national network that will utilise fibre, wireless and satellite technologies. This gives NBN Co the flexibility to choose from a mix of technologies to minimise the cost of building high speed broadband services.
