Broadband

Gold Coast City Council is committed to the improvement of Broadband access and speeds throughout the city.  Gold Coast City Council is currently engaged in a number of projects aimed at increasing access to high quality and high speed broadband internet services for all residents and businesses.

Latest Updates: 

Gold Coast Broadband Usage Survey

Gold Coast City Council's Broadband Usage Survey closed in April 2008. Thank you to all those that provided information on their current and future usage of Broadband. All results have been aggregated and details are available in the following downloads.

Results for Business/Home Office Users

Results for Home Users

Why Broadband?

Broadband has enormous benefit for business, home users and students, giving fast connections to the Internet, the opportunity to utilise broadband telephony (Voice over Internet Protocol - VoIP) and download video on demand.

Broadband can be connected 24 hours a day so there is no delay while you wait for a dial up connection.  Broadband does not tie up your phone line, so you can make and receive calls while using the Internet.

The speed of Broadband greatly improves productivity for business, regular users, home users and students.

Businesses can gain from the potential additional business from other businesses or individuals around the world whom they may not have reached with traditional marketing. In reality, your office is open for business 24 hours a day to take enquiries and orders.

Students can take advantage of faster access speeds, a greater range of downloadable material and less time gathering online research material.

Home users can benefit from the increased ease of communication, and the type of information they can send and receive. Stay in touch with family and friends sending photographs and video as well as standard emails. Study, shop, bank, pay bills and job search on line, save on telephone bills and view video on demand.

Broadband allows you to do all the things you are able to do with a dial-up connection, but faster and more cost effectively. As well as allowing you to take advantage of convergence technologies (the integration of data, voice and video).

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