AdelaideNow... Wireless broadband a boon for Yorke Peninsula

BROADBAND-CONNECTED Yorke Peninsula will generate an extra $25.5 million in economic benefits for SA over the next five years.

A State Government report has concluded that $2.75 million's worth of federal and state support since 2005 to help roll out wireless broadband to 97 per cent of the peninsula had returned three to four times that amount in financial, social and other benefits.

Report author Systems Knowledge Concepts managing director Simon Molloy said the peninsula's 11,000 residents had been fast adopters of the service – 40 per cent of households and 60 per cent of businesses were now connected, spending metropolitan-equivalent prices of about $39.95 a month for the 1.5Mb-a-second service.

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