New satellite telco launches in Qld

A new satellite telco has launched in Australia focusing on remote and regional areas.
 
Indigo Telecom Australia says its multi-billion dollar hybrid communications network covers 100 per cent of Australias landmass and out to sea.
 
Chief executive officer David Ruddiman said the Australian company, based in Brisbane, aim to tap into a market - or 72 per cent of the country - without access to 3G mobile networks.
 
"At present only 28 per cent of the Australian landmass has 3G mobile reception which has resulted in almost 5.5 million square kilometres of the country and more than 617,000 people working in regional, remote and very remote Australia not having access to reliable terrestrial mobile network coverage," Mr Ruddiman said.
 
Mr Ruddiman said that Indigo customers will not only have access to a multi-billion dollar satellite network covering the entire Asia-Pacific region but one which also extends satellite coverage to two thirds of the planet's land and ocean mass.