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Indigo Telecom, the company set up earlier this year to focus on providing satellite communications services to rural Australia, has named SkyMesh has its wholesale partner, but is still to name its long-waited, supposedly ubiquitous, retailing partner.

Internode has opened its third regional WiMAX network, covering the Riverland and Murraylands areas of South Australia.

NBN Co this week issued the first draft of its product overview for its planned satellite service, which will be offered on its own satellites several years hence. Meanwhile, it says it now has government approval for its interim solution.

The Rudd Government has doubled minimum broadband service speeds and doubled the minimum data allowance under its Australian Broadband Guarantee following Telstra's announcement of more competitively priced NextG wireless services.

The Government has decreed that data services on Telstra's Next G network are now "metro comparable" in price and performance and it will not longer provide subsidised services under the Australian Broadband Guarantee scheme to people living within Next G's coverage area.