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Telecommunications BigAir & Star-Tech bring broadband to student hostels
Telecommunications BigAir & Star-Tech bring broadband to student hostels | BigAir & Star-Tech bring broadband to student hostels |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 16 September 2008 | |
  
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The two have now extended facilities to Victoria University's Student Village and Sunbury Hall residential facilities. Before the start of the 2009 academic year they plan to add another 1,600 rooms in four more university villages in three states and a further 1,000 room site by 2010. "As a direct result the students are benefiting from hassle free high-speed Internet access available to them on demand and without the need to purchase a phone line or sign on to long-term contracts," the claim. "Customers do not have to worry about any paperwork, connection fees or termination fees, and nor do they need to buy any hardware [and] site stakeholders benefit from a worry free fully outsourced product." Students in these accommodations will also be able to get Freshtel VoIP services under a deal signed between Freshtel and Star-Tech in July. The service has already been implemented at the University of Melbourne's Graduate House where 20 Siemens C470IP DECT wireless handsets and 50 IP desk phones are pre-configured to use the Freshtel services. It is also being promoted to students at Macquarie University Village, Griffith University Village, RMIT Village and Victoria University's Sunbury Hall and will be rolled out to the four new sites being connected by BigAir and Star-Tech by the end of 2008. |
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