{"id":1982,"date":"2012-06-01T04:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2012-06-01T04:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:02:01","slug":"woodcroft-businesses-benefit-from-broadband-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"Woodcroft businesses benefit from broadband deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Chifley <strong>Ed Husic<\/strong> has welcomed an agreement by Telstra and Centro Management to extend a new broadband connection to the Woodcroft Shopping Centre.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For over a year, Mr Husic has been highlighting the plight of small business owners in the Woodcroft area who have not had access to reliable broadband services.  <\/p>\n<p>He says the decision by Centro Shopping Centre to upgrade the broadband connection will benefit the whole community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that businesses and shops in the Woodcroft Shopping Centre will be able to access fast broadband services and make use of a range of new business technologies,\u201d Mr Husic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will also benefit the whole community \u2014 like customers who buy their medication from the local pharmacy, where online access to a national database is routine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, it will also let businesses keep operating out of Woodcroft, which is great for jobs and our local economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Husic congratulated Telstra for stepping in and filling the gap until such time as the National Broadband Network is rolled out locally over 2012-13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBN is coming to Woodcroft in the next year but with the help of Telstra, local residents and small business owners can enjoy faster internet speeds today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI applaud Centro Shopping Centres and Telstra for negotiating this deal will be of great benefit to the Woodcroft community.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Chifley Ed Husic has welcomed an agreement by Telstra and Centro Management to extend a new broadband connection to the Woodcroft Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}