NBN Co satellites to be launched in Sept

Rural Australians could be just months away from faster internet after the the government confirmed new communications satellites will be launched in September.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull told a coalition joint party room meeting on Tuesday the service was expected to be commercially available in the first half of 2016.

The rollout of the NBN had ramped up in June with 436,000 fibre-to-the-node connections, he said.