NBN Co has announced that it was awarded contracts to two contractors for making arrangements for providing satellite broadband services to people living in remote parts of Australia.

The contracts with Bunbury-based Perkins and Melbourne-based Cockram will construct a total of ten satellite transmission centers across Australia by 2015 for enabling NBN to provide satellite based internet connection to people living in remote areas without much connectivity options.

The satellite transmission centers will relay internet services to the satellites that will be owned or rented by NBN. The satellites will transmit internet connection to three percent of the country's area where building a fibre optic cabling or fixed-wireless broadband is not economical.

The company had earlier said that base stations would require 20-30 construction workers at the each location with 60 people needed to run the network after its completion. Under the new contracts, Perkins will build four of the stations in Western Australia while Cockram will build six facilities in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia.

NBN had announced in February that it is spending $620 million on the construction of two satellites by Loral Space and Communications. The satellites will be launched by 2015.