Local farmer and Business Chamber president Ian Law believes in 2014 Wellington needs a better deal on the National Broadband Network.
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''It would be nice to see some certainty when it came to the NBN for places like Wellington,'' Mr Law told The Land newspaper.
"Hopefully something will come out of it that helps people on the land and in our towns.
NSW Farmers' telecommunications spokesman Anthony Gibson says they have been flagging the issue to state and federal politicians for a while.
Mr Law said the lack of service was hampering Wellington's opportunity of drawing new businesses to the area and also there was lack of portals available here.
Slow satellite internet service is useless as a farm tool as well, iiNet chief executive Michael Malone said.
"During occasional peak periods the service is slow. It has been almost unusable,'' he said.
By 2015 extra infrastructure will allow for 200,000 connections, download speeds of 25megabits per second and upload speeds of 5Mbps.
NSW Farmers' telecommunications spokesman Anthony Gibson, Girilambone said there were questions about whether that would satisfy demand.
"In theory, everybody in Australia should now have internet access, but the satellite service has become so congested it can no longer be classed as a usable system,'' he said.
"It's obsolete as a business tool and what business can survive today without internet access?"
