Benefits to Australia
KaComm’s satellite broadband service provides substantial benefits to Australia, including
- Eliminates the inequities of the digital divide between bush and city
- Provides assured service in times of emergency or natural disaster
- Stimulates the economy by bringing all Australians onto the net and unleashing their creative entrepreneurial abilities
- Protects the environment by permitting telecommuting from anywhere in Australia, thereby reducing the need to drive to work
Eliminate the Digital Divide
KaComm’s satellite delivery of broadband services eliminates Australia’s bush/city digital divide. Rural subscribers anywhere within Australia and its territories enjoy the same benefits as their city cousins, in terms of service and pricing. High quality communications spurs business activity, enhances quality of life and enables many services that city dwelling Australian’s take for granted. KaComm makes these advantages available to all Australians.
Serve the Underserved
KaComm will not only provide economical broadband services for those in the bush who cannot receive services in any other way, but KaComm believes its technology is a legitimate option in the underserviced fringes of regional and urban centres. KaComm will give underserved subscribers a genuine, competitively priced, and fully featured option to poorly performing terrestrial services from incumbent providers.
Delivery of Government and Community Services
The KaComm solution has been designed to include both household consumer and enterprise levels of service. Enterprise levels of service are suitable for the delivery of a wide variety of government, community and business services such as:
- Telemedicine.
- Educational services.
- Indigenous community services
- Defence applications
- High definition video teleconferencing to deliver ‘face-to-face’ support services such as:
- Remote provision of legal services.
- Welfare and social services processes.
- Banking services.
- Telecommuting for ‘tree-change’ professionals.
Environmentally Friendly
Digging and burying tens of thousands of kilometres of cables is a significant undertaking, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuel and producing large quantities of greenhouse gas. The manufacture of optic fibre itself occurs in high temperature, high energy consumption environments. During the life of the network, large ongoing maintenance requirements consume yet more resources, as does the power infrastructure to operate the system.
Satellites operate in space and are powered by the sun. During its 15 year operational life, the KaComm satellite will be powered by free, environmentally clean solar energy and will not contribute any greenhouse gasses to the earth’s atmosphere. Ongoing energy consumption on the ground is insignificant.
Emergency Services/Disaster Relief
Unlike terrestrial services which are vulnerable to disruption during emergencies or natural disasters, KaComm’s services have no base stations, exchanges or nodes to burn down, and no cables to be dug up or washed away. And not only is the KaComm solution survivable, deployable broadband satellite services are available anywhere within Australia within minutes of the arrival of emergency services to provide either full communications support or to augment oversubscribed or damaged terrestrial services. In the future, full broadband on the move will be possible through electronically or mechanically stabilised system. Such systems are already fielded by the militaries of a number of nations.