The Australian government company rolling out the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, has announced stage 1 of the large-scale rollout of the NBN which will roll out a fibre network to around a third of Australian premises. Over the next three years, construction of the fibre-optic component of the network will be underway or completed in areas containing 3.5 million premises in 1,500 communities in every state and territory in Australia. The expansion of the NBN construction follows the coming into force at the start of the month of the definitive agreements between NBN Co and Telstra. The entire construction project is expected to take around a decade to complete, with 93 percent of premises receiving broadband via fibre optic cable, 4 percent via fixed-wireless and the remaining 3 percent by satellite.
