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FREE Internet Initiative

The ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) have partnered with the NBN to use public libraries to help families connect with the School Student Broadband Initiative – SSBI as the government has opened it up for families to refer themselves until the end of 2024, rather than needing to be referred. 

What is it?

• The School Students Broadband Initiative is FREE internet for any household that has a school aged student in it until the end of December 2025.

Who is Eligible?

• You must be caring for a school aged student. 
• You must be in an area that can have NBN connected to it.
• You must NOT Have had an NBN connection for 14 days.

How do they connect? (Customers can do this themselves, or we can do it with them)

1. Call the national Referral Centre: 1800 954 610
2. The Referral Centre will ask questions to confirm their eligibility (This is entirely on trust; they won’t double check anything other than if they can get NBN)
3. The NRC will send them a voucher, via email, SMS, or mail if they prefer.
4. The NRC will then call a service provider with customer on the phone and do a ‘warm transfer’ with the customer. This means they will talk the service provider through the fact that this is an SSBI customer, here is the voucher number. 
5. The Service Provider will take over the call and connect the person to Internet FREE of charge as per their normal connection process. 
6. Entire process takes about 20minutes max.

For more information go to: School Student Broadband Initiative: information for parents and carers

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