Internet service provider Internode will re-commence selling subsidised broadband services to rural areas where Telstra has ADSL infrastructure, under the federal government's AU$878 million Broadband Connect (BC) scheme.
Telstra has temporarily ceased enabling some rural telephone exchanges for ADSL services after late last year it reached the limit of funds it could receive from the federal government's subsidised bush broadband scheme.
The federal government is expanding from 13 to 24 its network of community broadband 'brokers' which aggregate regional demand and look to entice service providers to meet it.
Telstra has upgraded 24 of its exchanges to ADSL and is set to equip another 24 as a result of their "ADSL demand registration scheme."
Not everyone takes "no" for an answer when told they're stuck in a broadband blackspot.
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