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Neighbourhood Cable is a business owned and operated by Neighbourhood Cable Limited. Neighbourhood Cable combines the delivery of high-speed broadband internet services, cable television and telephone services (by Voice over Internet Protocol 'VOIP') to residential, business, government and educational institutions in local cities where it has buil... t its hybrid fibre and coaxial (HFC) networks. Neighbourhood Cable owns and operates HFC cable networks in three Victorian regional cities: Mildura - 500Kms North West of Melbourne Ballarat - 100Kms West of Melbourne Geelong - 90Kms South West of Melbourne Over its three networks, the Company provides a range of products and services to its customers, including: High-speed broadband and dial-up Internet access based on HFC broadband, ADSL and wireless technologies Cable TV - 35 channels of subscription and free-to-air programming Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony High-speed data services Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) While the Company's original plans were based around Cable TV, by 2001 the strategy shifted towards high-speed always-on broadband services. Neighbourhood Cable was initially incorporated as a private company in 1994 by John Freeman and his sons Garth and Craig Freeman, in partnership with other Australian private investors, to bring modern telecommunications and entertainment services to 'disadvantaged' regional cities. In 1997 the Company was invited by the Mildura Rural City Council to build an HFC network in Mildura. Construction commenced that year and by December 1997, the Company had connected its first subscriber to Australia's first independent HFC infrastructure full service telecommunications network. Neighbourhood Cable Pty Ltd's shares were acquired by a public company (National Investments Limited), which relisted in April 2000 as the public company, Neighbourhood Cable Limited. Funding financed the rollout of Neighbourhood Cable's second city, Ballarat. Realising that real value to regional Australia in terms of broadband delivery, would ...Read More