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Ceduna in the West Coast region of South Australia will house the next satellite ground station for NBN Co's Long Term Satellite Service.

The ground station will play a key part of connecting Australians in isolated areas to fast broadband.

The ground station will be located on Goode Road, approximately two kilometres north-east of Ceduna, and will act as an essential transmission centre to deliver the NBN to homes, farms and businesses in remote areas including Oodnadatta, Marree and Wilpena Pound

The Tasmanian town of Geeveston in the Huon Valley is the latest location to be selected for a National Broadband Network (NBN) satellite ground station to ensure Australians in isolated areas can connect to fast broadband.

The ground station will be an essential transmission centre connecting the ground-based National Broadband Network to NBN Co's two high performance satellites.

Parkes may have The Dish, but 434km up the road, the outback town of Bourke is to get one of Australia’s latest satellite installations.

Bourke, in the far north-west of NSW is the location for NBN Co’s second satellite ground station facility that will deliver high speed broadband to remote communities across Australia.

The satellite ground station gateway will form a key part of NBN’s Long Term Satellite Service, designed to bring broadband at speeds of up to 12 megabits per second to homes, farms and businesses in outback and remote parts of Australia, including communities in the Bourke Shire such as Louth, Gumbalie and Fords Bridge.

Wolumla, approximately 15 kilometres north-west of the township of Merimbula, has been chosen as the spot for NBN Co's first satellite gateway, beaming a high speed broadband link from Earth to NBN Co's own satellites, planned to be launched and operational by 2015.