Parramatta launches Australia?s first free 802.11ac Wi-Fi network Users can access 30 minutes a day of free Internet with speeds up to 100Mbps
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Councillor and ParraConnect committee member, Paul Garrard, came up with the idea to build a network that would put Parramatta on the map and offer almost the same standard of connectivity seen in cities such as New York, Seoul and Barcelona.
?This is an event that the New South Wales government said couldn?t happen three years ago,? he said at the launch today.
?Three years ago they spent a million dollars doing a feasibility study that said we couldn?t do what we?re launching today. So it?s thanks to the capacity of the ParraConnect committee which is made up of a combination of community and business people who have come together to work on this.?
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With the NBN fiber cable to almost ever home, at a cost that will only be guessed at after 10+ years, I often wonder what new technologies will arrive in the next 5, 10, 15, or 20 years that could make fiber optic to every home plan, look like last centuries technology.
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