To accelerate collaboration between the agency and the private sector on the Ngara project the CSIRO will also hold an invite-only ‘open day’ in March to showcase the latest developments and tweaks to the technology based on the Tasmanian trials, Oppermann said.

The CSIRO was also continuing its of the project. The technology could potentially form the fixed wireless technology used to serve the last seven per cent of Australian premises under the NBN, but there have been no confirmed negotiations as yet with the network wholesaler NBN Co.

NBN Co for $120 million, proving the first step to deploy fixed wireless as part of the NBN.

“We are also negotiating with commercial partners to come in to the [Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation] to not only provide some telco equipment… but help validate services in an NBN-like environment, if not actually the NBN,” he said.”

“With that we can take on the role of public service validation... and we are looking to have corporates come and trial some of their technology in our environment and have our technology in their environment as well as help build the information architecture that is necessary.”