Geographic Rollout
NBN Co has released an update to its 12-month national fibre rollout schedule. The updated schedule lists 66 sites across the country, containing more than 758 000 premises, where work is completed, underway or will begin by December 2012.
The 12-month rollout schedule marks the end of the trial phase and the beginning of the volume fibre rollout to 93 per cent of Australian premises.
For more information on the 12-month fibre rollout schedule and indicative coverage maps of the NBN’s fibre, fixed wireless and satellite technologies, as well as proposed transit links, visit NBN Co’s website.
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Australian fibre rollout
NBN Co has released a 12-month national fibre rollout schedule listing 49 sites across the country where work is underway or will begin before September 2012. This marks the end of the trial phase and the beginning of the volume…
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Fixing regional backbone blackspots
The Australian Government has invested $250 million to improve the supply of backbone transmission links to regional centres where the competitive backbone infrastructure is lacking. In other words, ‘blackspots’.
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Fibre in new developments
Installing fibre in new developments will give property buyers early access to the benefits of next-generation broadband and help avoid future retrofitting costs.
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Network delivery
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will be operated on a wholesale-only, open access basis. For the first time in Australia, retail service providers will be able to access infrastructure that is not owned or operated by one of its competitors.
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Community consultation
To ensure local chambers of commerce have a good understanding of how and when the NBN will be rolled out in their local communities, and what individual businesses should do to prepare for migration, a series of local business forums will commence in the second half of 2011.
