Telstra has finished a $328 million fibre upgrade throughout NSW’s more than 2200 public schools, giving hundreds of thousands of students quicker, more dependable internet.
The two-year initiative came to an end on Thursday with the final 12 public schools, including Wattle Flat Public School near Bathurst, being linked to fibre internet.
With Sarah Mitchell, the Education Minister, pledging at the time a tenfold boost in internet speeds in metropolitan and remote locations, Telstra started the upgrade in late 2020.
According to John Ieraci, owner of Telstra Enterprise Public Sector Group, the initiative “substantially upgraded the speed and capacity for more than 2200 schools, enabling new learning… options.”
In 2010, Telstra began supplying all NSW public schools and TAFE institutions with fibre that could give speeds between 4Mbps and 100Mbps.
The regional access gap programme, which is spending $365.8 million on providing learning tools and smartboards to kids and instructors, is separate from the fibre project.
