LEETON business owners say the decision to extend NBN to the Vance Industrial Estate is a step forward for the industry prominent community.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
It comes after The Irrigator revealed on Monday the NBN fibre to the node service will be extended to Vance Industrial Estate after extensive lobbying by Leeton Shire Council.
The original plan for Leeton’s NBN service was confined to the CBD and residential areas.
It was a proposal having council question whether the town’s NBN capabilities were limiting industrial and commercial growth opportunities.
Leeton’s Vance Industrial Estate is an important part of local industry, housing both large and small businesses and doubling in size in recent years.
Leeton site manager of Celi Group Natalie Celi said the estate deserves fast and reliable internet for there to be level playing field for regional businesses.
“Fast internet is critical to our business operations as our servers are based in our Adelaide site therefore our only link is via the internet,” Ms Celi said.
“NBN will help with backups, increased data service, video conferencing and hopefully better reliability.
“There are a lot of business in Leeton and in particular the Vance Industrial Estate that are quiet achievers that will benefit from having faster and more reliable internet through the NBN.
“Without fast and reliable internet our business would not be competitive and be able to service our customer located all over Australia.”
Bo Jarema, the joint managing director of southern Central Engineering, said if the NBN proves to be more reliable and efficient than the current ADSL it would significantly improve business efficiency.
“If the NBN is better than the current speed and download times than it will be significantly better,” Mr Jarema said.
“It means there can be more productivity and if we spend less time sitting at a computer waiting than that will be more efficient.
Mr Jarema said times are very different to the days when several people would sit in a room around a drawing board and work on a project together.
He believes much of the new way of thinking and working is thanks significantly to the advent of the internet, and its use during every day life.
“Everything is online now, at least 20 percent of my day involves the internet between emails,” Mr JArema said.
“Downloading documents or viewing shared drives so the internet is important.”
Fixed-wireless broadband service areas offer 50 megabits per second download speeds to 90 per cent of Leeton premises.
