THE national broadband network is counting on signing up about 200,000 households to its new satellite internet service across regional Australia at a cost of almost $10,000 a customer.
NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley outlined the new target yesterday as he hit back at Coalition claims that the broadband company could rent the capacity rather than operate its own satellites under a $620 million deal with Loral Space Communications.
The deal, revealed in The Australian Financial Review yesterday, will see the government company own and operate two satellites to be launched in 2015 for remote consumers not connected by the NBN Co's optical fibre or fixed wireless networks.
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