NBN Co says 9,000 country households who have so far missed out on satellite broadband will now be able to connect.

The Federal Government company has consistently fallen short of its connection goals with fibre, and has admitted it underestimated the demand for satellite broadband in regional areas.

Its interim satellite service was oversubscribed and it's had to spend millions of dollars more on increasing download speeds.

The users will access interim satellites in a deal NBN has made with wholesaler IP Star and other Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

NBN Co's Joe Dennis says the connection will be subsidised if premises in remote areas haven't had any broadband access so far. Listen Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds 2 m 53 s Listen Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. More broadband for the bush labelled a 'band-aid solution' ( Craig Zonca ) Download 1.3 MB

"(That means) those people outside 3G phone coverage, outside ADSL landline services and outside other commercial wireless offerings.

"And secondly, it's for those people who haven't accessed a government subsidised scheme before."

The speed will be comparable to the current satellite speed of four megabits per second download and one megabit per second upload.

Andrew Pegler, the Queensland president of the Isolated Children's Parents Association, says the latest additional satellite capacity has been a long time coming.

"It will certainly give access to the internet access to people that had no option."

But Mr Pegler says people who subscribed early to the interim satellite service will be frustrated because they're now dealing with very slow download speeds.

"The problem is that the satellite service is a limited capacity service and they oversold it to hell," he said.

"They assumed people wouldn't use much of it because, in the past, they hadn't used much of it because they were on very limited service and very expensive plans."

Joe Dennis admits the latest development is a band-aid solution.

"We're holding our breath for the launch of the long-term satellite which will be early 2016," said Mr Dennis.

"Until that time, we understand that there is extraordinarily strong demand for broadband services out in remote and rural areas.

"This new support scheme is a stop-gap measure."