Is your home getting the NBN this year? More towns added to rollout plan...

by Chris Jager  |  Thursday 16 February 2012
Is your home getting the NBN this year? More towns added to rollout plan...

Eight more towns and cities will be connected to the national broadband network over the next 12 months. See if you're one of the lucky ones...

The NBN Co has announced fibre rollout plans for additional areas in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria for 2012. Eight more towns and cities are expected to be connected by the beginning of next year, totalling 70,600 premises in total.

The new towns added to the NBN rollout this year are Bellerive, Claremont and South Launceston in Tasmania, Corrimal in NSW, Ascot in Queensland and Footscray, Karingal and Keysborough in Victoria. 

Most of these towns are situated in areas where work on the NBN rollout has already started. The NBN Co stated it needs to manage the rollout of the network as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, and deploy contractor resources in a logical, sequential way. 

758,100 premises around the country are now expected to have access to the NBN by 2013; an increase of 191,300 from the previously released schedule.

The table below shows the NBN Co's previously announced rollout plans. 

 

Click table to enlarge.

According to the official schedule, it will be 2021 before 93% of Australian homes are connected to fibre Internet via the NBN, with remote areas expected to be connected via satelite.

At present, approximately 5500 premises have been connected to the NBN. You can see an interactive NBN rollout map of the country at the NBN Co website. Also be sure to check out our NBN Super Guide in this month's issue of PC & Tech Authority.

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Connecting to the NBN: this is the network boundary point

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Comments: 18
r_j_a_y
16 February 2012
 > It will be 2021 before 93% of Australian homes are connected to fibre Internet.

Seriously?


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Is your home getting the NBN this year? More towns added to rollout plan...?
Eight more towns and cities will be connected to the national broadband network over the next 12 months. See if you're one of the lucky ones...


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amcmo
16 February 2012
 Seriously pissed.

More suburbs that already have good ADSL2+ getting NBN, and seemingly more good Labor or marginal areas.

The Qld ones seem to have been chosen to give Bligh something to trumpet coming up to the election next month.

Given the number of Labor Federal's dropping into assist the locals, they seem to feel they need all the help they can get.
photohounds
16 February 2012
 Yep AM, 3/3 electorates here always vote Labor, result?
Just one suburb in the entire city!

That's inadequate, considering the massive expenditure of yours and my LOOT.

Where's the ROI in that for ,US???1

:(
DJ...
16 February 2012
 Is someone throwing darts at a map to decide the rollout? The dart thrower probably has a political bias but why isn't the NBN being rolled out linearly rather than randomly. Surely it is more efficient to expand from where the necessary backhaul infrastructure already exists than to just do towns and suburbs randomly?

And why roll out in areas that already have HFC or ADSL+ ? Why not 'fringe' areas like my own. :-)
photohounds
16 February 2012
 While the fringe areas that have no ADSL idea has a "ring of fairness" about it has almost zero ROI.

Oh wait it's taxpayers money so we don't need value anyway - nor speed apparently - ironic that speed is taking SO LONG, eh ?? :)
Dalek6450
16 February 2012
 As always Western Australia is getting things last despite making most of Australia's money.
lrd390
16 February 2012
 Why is everyone surprised that the government is getting it all wrong again?
photohounds
16 February 2012
 Most of us old bastards are groaning and saying:
"Oh no, not again".

Much like Douglas Adams' bowl of Petunias ...
petergaskin
16 February 2012
 No idea when I will get the nbn. Very few details on the rollout. The areas that need NBN the most - forget it. They just will not get it at all. instead they will have to rely on satellites. So the great NBN will not fix the problems of those who most need it at all!
photohounds
16 February 2012
 Yep, wireless will serve much of the outlying areas.

Wait ... isn't that what BAAAD Abbot's mod were proposing and were shouted down.

Pollies - hmmpfh!
Kurupt
17 February 2012
 who gives a shit about the NBN, it's a failed project by a failed government in power. of course it will go to the wrong places. Lol.. 2021.. there'll be new technology by then. what a joke
photohounds
17 February 2012
 Agree K, A joke and it is on the taxpayer. 10 years, and I heard The PM in parliament Tuesday eve, banging on about how "bad" it would be if NBN were dumped. This terrible prediction was spriuked by her, AS IF THE NBN had actually affected significant numbers of people and MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS in its first 4 years. WHich of course the numbers say it has NOT.

Stupid scare tactic to keep wasting PUBLIC money.
j876
17 February 2012
 What a money pit this project is turning out to be.

I like the dart board analogy! :-)

I am glad Tassie is getting decent internet coverage because anywhere outside Hobart and Launceston is absolutely woeful.
MangoTree
17 February 2012
 Dalek6450, it's not just WA that's getting short shrift. Apparently it's mining areas that are non-priorities. Case in point, Mackay, QLD. I think we're targeted for the NBN around 2014 or something, regardless of the lack of reasonable competition for fixed broadband service. It's not as if we even have decent mobile broadband here or anything, either.
rubaiyat
18 February 2012
Dalek6450 wrote:
As always Western Australia is getting things last despite making most of Australia's money.


We didn't hear you whinging when all the Eastern States were all sending you massive infrastructure subsidies most of last century.

I'm seriously thinking of starting the Pilbara Liberation Army to get you bloodsucking southerners in Perth off the oppressed North Westerners' backs.
photohounds
22 February 2012
 I thought QLD was the "beggar state" before - and now supposedly Tassie is according to the WA premier?
amcmo
22 February 2012
 Mango - You lucky bastard - 2014!

Maroochy is 202x or some such! That's what you get for being a Coalition electorate!:-s
rubaiyat
24 February 2012
r_j_a_y wrote:
> It will be 2021 before 93% of Australian homes are connected to fibre Internet.

Seriously?


Which part of ten year roll out did you not understand?

Oh wait, that's less than $3.5 billion a year! Must tell the opposition, they'll be so relieved to find out its not really excessive at all.

Edited by rubaiyat: 24/2/2012 11:39:54 PM
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