The promise of faster internet through the National Broadband Network has already attracted home-based businesses to Kiama, weeks before the network is switched on.Photographer Paul Gosney said the chance to connect to the NBN was a major factor in his decision to move from Sydney to the Kiama Downs and Minnamurra first-release site.Customer trials of the network are scheduled to begin at Kiama Downs this month and commercial services will commence as early as October. Most of the 2250 homes in the first release area have chosen to connect.Mr Gosney said he and his partner, commercial photographer Sophie Turner, wanted to leave the city to raise their young family. They had considered other towns, but settled on Minnamurra in part because of the business opportunities the NBN presented.Mr Gosney has signed up with internet service provider Internode and hopes to be selected for initial tests of the network which promises to deliver speeds of up to 100 megabits per second."I might even have an advantage over my competitors," he said. "Part of my work I send overseas for post production, but now I will be able to send a lot more files."He will also be able to deliver larger files electronically to his customers."So I can shoot a job in Sydney, do the post production down here and then deliver them at call to my clients," he said.Meantime, management consultant Maree Shepherd, who has a holiday home in the first release site, said her employer, Shepherd and Shepherd, had relocated part of its business from Sutherland to take advantage of the NBN.Poor broadband access in the area had prevented her from relocating the office in the past, but she now hopes to expand the company's international operations through remote training and video-conferencing."We run small-class skills training sessions where we video the person and ... discuss the messages they're trying to present, Ms Shepherd said. "We could have that workshop without the physical presence of the instructor in the room," she said.Meantime, Kiama council general manager Michael Forsyth said the State Government's new $7000 regional relocation grants would be: "a wonderful incentive" for residents to move to Kiama."Coupled with the NBN opportunities, business will also will benefit immensely," he said.