BUSINESS people and professionals are moving to Tasmania from interstate and overseas to take advantage of the state's early National Broadband Network roll-out.
Bass Labor MHR Geoff Lyons said he knew of people from as far away as the US, Western Australia and Sydney who had moved to Tasmanian towns where NBN optic fibres had been rolled out first.
Mr Lyons said high-speed internet and the Tasmanian lifestyle should prove an irresistible combination for professionals who could perform high-powered jobs from home.
IT manager Lionel Walters, of communications giant Cisco Systems, has worked from home at Deloraine since moving his family from Sydney 18 months ago.
New parliamentary secretary for broadband Ed Husac said in Launceston yesterday that Tasmania's NBN roll-out was on track to be finished in 2015, with the connection of just over 200,000 premises.
Digital Tasmania spokesman Andrew Connor said the optic fibre roll-out and its uptake by consumers had been accelerating.
More than 50 per cent of Kingston premises had signed up to optic fibre services.
Mr Husac hit the start button for NBN wireless services, which is now available to small communities surrounding 19 Tasmanian towns.
The Federal Government-owned Telco NBNCo also launched its newest optic fibre network, which connects 4300 premises in Launceston.
It increases the number of premises connected to optic fibre to more than 20,000.
The fixed wireless technology networks will connect a further 10,600 homes to the NBN in areas including Snug, Cygnet, Huonville and Sorell.
Darren Alexander, a director of TAS NBNCo and chief executive of Autech, a Launceston technology business with world-wide markets, said NBN connections offered businesses good value.
"My business will be paying $105 a month. That's exactly $5 more than I'm paying now and it's going to be six times faster.
"That's what I call value for money," he said.
The faster connections would enable him to spend more time in Launceston while communicating via video conferencing.
TasICT executive officer Dean Winter yesterday said he was disappointed the Department of Broadband and the Digital Economy had cancelled this month's NBN business forums in Hobart and Launceston.
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