NBNCo’s future may be politically uncertain, but the company tasked with building the Australian government of the day's nationwide fibre network is getting on with the job, today announcing the long-awaited three year rollout plan, detailing all the suburbs and new estates that it intends to service with high speed fibre optic broadband connections and the regional areas to be covered by dedicated fixed wireless services by 2015.
According to tech blog
Delimiter, the rollout is pegged to "pass 3.5 million premises in 1500 communities in every state and territory in Australia".
The locations were chosen, according to NBN Co, firstly on the basis of meeting a number of policy objectives, namely that construction should take place across both rural and metropolitan areas; that construction should be across all states and territories; that the rollout in Tasmania should be finished by 2016 and that all new developments with over 100 premises should be covered.
In addition, NBN Co added a number of its own guidelines to help determine the schedule, ranging from the idea that the fixed wireless rollout should be completed in 2015 (it will target a small percentage of areas which won’t receive fibre); that satellite broadband via NBN Co’s own satellites should be available by 2015, and that areas where there were a large number of new developments should be prioritised, to avoid old technologies having to be installed — only to be replaced with the NBN later on.
If you want to see whether your area made the cut, NBNCo have a comprehensive
Google Maps interface flagging every location.
Consumers in completed areas will be able to access the wholesale NBN service retailed via many of the same ISP's that currently supply DSL and Cable services in the country today.
Although the network is touted to have far reaching economic benefits across many sectors, there are some obvious predictable benefits from a pure gaming perspective. Immediately, fibre connected players can expect more stable and low latency connections to domestic game servers. Then as NBN connections in Australia become more ubiquitous we can expect better chances of the player hosting that Halo or Call of Duty match on Xbox or PlayStation to have a connection fast enough to support everyone else in their game, and of course, the further viability of "cloud gaming" services like OnLive and Gakai.
All this is assuming that a change in government won’t derail the entire thing, but if you’re fortunate enough to be on the rollout map, there’s at least the chance that the relevant contracts might be carved in the bedrock if and when that time comes.
Did you make the cut?
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Work to commence within three years - we will commence work in your area from Jun 2015 in phases with last work scheduled to commence in Sep 2015*
Fingers crossed these contracts get drawn up and signed off as soon as possible.
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Posted 11:40pm 29/3/12
Julia Gillard said today that 6000 premises will be connected per week in the 3 year roll out plan resulting in 3.5M premises being connected. Any person who can do basic math can see that 6000 premises a week equates to 936K premises in 3 years. NOT 3.5M premises.
I would like to believe that labor are just retarded and they have got their counting wrong, but that's not the case. They are just once again simply lying to us, and they don't give a s*** if we realize.
Posted 11:55pm 29/3/12
She might not be a saint but it was Tony Abbott who admitted that what he said cannot always be trusted.
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Ormeau.
Posted 08:25pm 31/3/12
It sure is buddy, it sure is.
The rollout is retarded on the Gold Coast though - All the areas that need it aren't getting s***, and all the areas that are well serviced already are getting it. Idiots.
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It was something like "If I haven't written it down you better believe I am lying through my teeth"
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I've had 2x 5 minutes and 1x 5 hours (when someone drove into a pole) in the last 13 years.
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FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
Posted 03:42pm 02/4/12
meh
http://www.nbnco.com.au/rollout/rollout-map.html
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:D
Posted 01:38am 03/4/12
It is estimated that the average time from work beginning to NBN services being available is 12 months.
Awwwwww yeh