A Sunshine Coast family-based business, Auscom, has been awarded a $1 million contract to provide a key part of the International Broadband Submarine Cable Network.

Under the deal Auscom will deliver the land side fibre network which will connect the beach landing to the cable landing station at Maud Street, Maroochydore.

Once the network is operational in mid-2020, the Sunshine Coast will provide the fastest international connection point from Queensland and east Australia to Asia – described by the Sunshine Coast Council as a significant step-change in the Sunshine Coast’s attractiveness as an investment location.