TV aerials will soon be able to pick up remote broadband in Australia thanks to new technology that will be launched over the next few years.
This new technology does not need new digital TV aerials either as it uses traditional analogue TV aerials to connect to the internet.
Thanks to these TV aerials, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation now says that even those people living in very remote parts of Australia will be able to connect to the internet using a broadband connection.
And the internet connection will be as fast and reliable as broadband internet picked up in other parts of the country meaning people will be able to keep in touch with friends and family and this could also have wider implications for industry and business.
Known as Ngara, this new system will see analogue TV aerials used to transmit signals, which will allow people to use broadband internet.
It is now hoped that even the most isolated Australians could have internet access within the next two years.
Dr Ian Oppermann from CSIRO said: “We are really trying to address townships that have less than 1000 homes, those specifically which are targeted to not get fibre so going beyond where the fibre will be laid out.”
By using the existing aerial towers and infrastructure, it is also hoped that costs to get broadband out to more homes will be kept as low as possible.
The CSIRO is a national science agency in Australia and is one of the largest agencies of its type in the world. It was set up in the wake of the First World War when in 1916, the Australia Government set up the Advisory Council of Science and Industry. Later in 1926, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research was set up to carry out research in the farming, manufacturing and mining sectors.