Satellite coverage As well as providing backbone and customer access networks, particularly for rural and remote Australia, the satellite network provides additional bandwidth to connect Australia to international destinations. Satellite broadband services provide 100 per cent coverage of Australia’s land area. In April 2007, there were around 41 satellite broadband service providers operating in Australia, with most of these service providers being regional ISPs that resell satellite broadband to regional, rural and remote customers.[15]
Satellite coverage of the Australian continent is provided by Orbcomm, Iridium, New ICO, Globalstar, Inmarsat, Intelsat who acquired PanAmSat in mid 2006, SES Global, NewSat, Optus, and iPStar. Satellite communications service revenues (excluding mobile telephones) exceeded $260 million in the 2005-06 year.[16] As of 30 Sep 2006 there were 42,400 consumer satellite broadband Internet customers.[17] Turnover from Optus satellite operations included consumer Internet, television and business customers and totalled $227 million at year ended 31 March 2006.[18]
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