Deakin University researchers have joined scientists from SeaGen Aquaculture and Gippsland-based biotech company Offshore Biotechnologies to undertake the largest rapid assessment of marine sponge cultivation in Australia.
Fish Creek, a tourist town in Victoria's Gippsland region, now offers public Wi-Fi thanks to RSP Aussie Broadband and South Gippsland Shire Council.
Locals and visitors to Gippsland and Victoria’s High Country will benefit from a major telecommunications upgrade project that will transform connectivity; improve, expand and build new mobile coverage; boost capacity and mobile data speeds and strengthen network resilience.
If you live in an area that's either too remote or too difficult to get the NBN's fibre optic cable to, the NBN's wireless or satellite networks will be your on-ramp to the information superhighway.
The news that several towns in Gippsland will miss out on a piece of the moral broadband challenge of our generation is joined by the NBN Co shifting responsibility for getting consent to get the fibre connected from itself, to ISPs, although renters will still need the landlord's consent.