The NBN is bypassing East Murrumbateman and the option of connecting to the fibre cable network is not available.  The best option is Wireless (similar to 4G) and we want NBN Co to install a tower for wireless internet covering an area up to 14km radius so that Murrumbateman residents living on the East side of the Barton Highway will be able to receive Line-Of-Sight wireless broadband once a new NBN wireless tower has been approved and installed.   There are more than 100 homes within Ambleside and Dundoos Community Title Estates and surrounds directly affected including  rural hobby farms and farmlets within a 14km radius.  

As of today the NBN fibre optic cable is only going to be made available to residents of Murrumbateman Village, Merryville and Carrington Park but not homes on the East side of the Highway.  NBN are providing a third tier SkyMuster Satellite service which is the same as that being offered to remote or secluded rural properties and Satellite is not a satisfactory answer for rural-residential estates due to the latency and reduced data limits.  It is hard to believe NBN Co are wanting east-side residents to get their internet via a satellite 32,000km away when the cable will only be 5km away.

Please add your name to this petition if you live within a 14km radius of Murrumbateman and are not included in the FTTN - Fibre to the Node roll-out so that we may have the numbers (we need around 150 signatures) to convince NBN Co to install a Wireless Tower with broadband speeds of 30 to 50 mb/s, no latency and higher data limits.  Note that current ADSL++ speeds for those living more than 4km from the exchange are around 1mb/s.