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National broadband innovator Internode has won a
prestigious ATUG telecommunications industry award for its Australia-first
WiMAX broadband project in the Yorke Peninsula region of South Australia.
This week, at the annual ATUG (Australian
Telecommunications User Group) awards ceremony in Sydney, Internode got the gong for
the Best Regional Communications Solution. The ATUG Excellence Award recognised
Internode's outstanding achievements in innovation and services to end users
through its deployment of Australia's first
region-wide, wireless broadband service using the WiMAX
standard.
Internode started construction of its high-speed wireless
network in 2005, establishing a series of towers along the "spine" of the Yorke
Peninsula, a largely rural area west of Adelaide.
This provided line-of-sight connectivity to coastal communities that were too
far from telephone exchanges to use ADSL-based broadband services, for the same
price as customers who live in metropolitan areas.
Internode managing director Simon Hackett said Internode was
honoured to receive an award that recognised the company's leadership role in
Australian technology. "Internode aims to be at the forefront of innovation,"
he said. "This first WiMAX deployment shows the way for the OPEL
consortium's network by demonstrating that it can succeed in the real world as
long as licensed spectrum is used."
Internode is currently evaluating the potential of
replicating the successful Yorke Peninsula
network to the Coorong, where it has an extensive network based on earlier
wireless broadband technology.
Internode
is a first tier IP carrier committed to using broadband technology to
redefine the national telecommunications environment. The
Australian-owned company is a trailblazer that delivers broadband
services to individuals and businesses throughout Australia.
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