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Determined to fix outback internet
Rural Australia’s internet problems will be put under the microscope by a James Cook University PhD student who started his own business to help solve connectivity problems in the bush.
William Harrington grew up on a remote family farm in Queensland, bedevilled by slow or non-existent internet.
“The problem became so bad that I was forced to diversify the farming business by starting an internet service provider company simply to purchase more internet capacity,” said Mr Harrington.
He completed a degree in computer systems engineering at JCU and is now about to take up a Fulbright scholarship to study how the rural connectivity problem is addressed in the United States and learn about their solutions to the problem.