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These Canberra suburbs will have faster NBN by 2030 as long-awaited upgrades begin
Construction has begun on long-awaited upgrades to improve National Broadband Network speeds for about 97,000 Canberra premises relying on older technology, due for completion by 2030.
The project being delivered across Australia by the NBN Co with a $3 billion Commonwealth equity injection has faced faced hurdles in the ACT, where backyard power poles can struggle to support the cable load required.
Finance Minister and ACT Senator Katy Gallagher said the NBN Co's consultation process was "second to none" but that "there will be some disruption".
NBN Co chief executive Ellie Sweeney said "the vast majority" of the new cables would be installed underground but "there will still be some overground cabling".
"We'll be building pits and pipes ... we're going to reuse as much as we can," Ms Sweeney told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.
"That just goes to resilience. It goes to efficiency, and it goes to the long term nature of this investment."
She conceded that Canberra "has been a challenging build for NBN" but said: "We are absolutely committed to bringing this on time and on budget."
In some cases, there would be disruption to private property as the project progressed.
"We work really closely with local governments, with local communities, to ensure that it is a great experience," Ms Sweeney said.
Senator Gallagher said many ACT residents "have told me they struggle with slow or unreliable connections".
"Canberrans deserve fast, reliable and affordable internet, and this upgrade will make a real difference," she said.
Many Canberrans already have NBN through a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) connection, where the existing copper phone and internet network from a nearby fibre node is used to connect their home to a box in their street.
Under the upgrades being rolled out, people with FTTN connections will be upgraded to the faster, more reliable fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP), where a fibre optic line is run from the nearest available fibre node directly to the home or business.
The upgrades will almost double the number of ACT premises able to access multi-gigabit-capable broadband, with 99 per cent of ACT suburbs expected to be upgraded.
For the remaining one or two suburbs, Ms Sweeney said "the logistics make it uneconomical, but we'll be looking at a better technology than what people are on today, which is copper".
Alternatives could be fixed wireless or a high-speed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service such as Amazon Leo, she said.
Asked if NBN Co saw Elon Musk's Starlink as a competitive threat, Ms Sweeney said the NBN - which haw upgraded more than a million customers to fibre - was seeing its downloads " exponentially growing."
Almost a third of Australians now demanding download speeds of 500 megabits or more, and growing, she said, and, "you can't get that speed on a Starlink."
"We think [Amazon] Leo has a place within Australia. It's great in low density environments," Ms Sweeney said.
"If you think about Australia, those remote areas, it makes a lot of sense, but fibre, globally is recognized as a superior technology. It is the fastest, it is the most scalable, so it will get you up to that multi-mix speed ... It is not impacted by line of sight, and it's not impacted by congestion."
"Once that fibre is in the ground, it's there, and it is only the electronics on either end that we need to upgrade to take those speeds even higher in the decades to come," she said.
The suburbs set to receive the upgrades are:
CALWELL CHAPMAN CHIFLEY CHISHOLM CONDER DUFFY FADDEN FARRER FISHER GILMORE GORDON GOWRIE GREENWAY HOLDER HUME ISAACS ISABELLA PLAINS KAMBAH MACARTHUR MAWSON MONASH O'MALLEY OXLEY PEARCE PHILLIP RICHARDSON RIVETT STIRLING SYMONSTON THEODORE TORRENS WANNIASSA WARAMANGA WESTON ACTON AINSLIE ARANDA BARTON BELCONNEN BRADDON BRUCE CAMPBELL CANBERRA AIRPORT COOK CURTIN DEAKIN DICKSON DOWNER FORREST GARRAN GIRALANG GRIFFITH HACKETT HAWKER HUGHES KALEEN KINGSTON LYNEHAM LYONS MACQUARIE NARRABUNDAH O'CONNOR PARKES PIALLIGO RED HILL REID TURNER WATSON WEETANGERA YARRALUMLA BELCONNEN EVATT FLOREY FLYNN FRASER HALL HIGGINS HOLT LATHAM MACGREGOR MCKELLAR MELBA PAGE SCULLIN SPENCE[/quote]
#ACT #Canberra #NBN #FttP #FuckOffMadmonk
These Canberra suburbs will have faster NBN by 2030 as long-awaited upgrades begin
97,000 Canberra homes to see improved NBN speeds as underground fibre replaces outdated tech, ensuring faster, reliable internet by 2030.
(www.canberratimes.com.au)
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canberratimes.com.au/story/917…
[quote]...
These Canberra suburbs will have faster NBN by 2030 as long-awaited upgrades begin
Construction has begun on long-awaited upgrades to improve National Broadband Network speeds for about 97,000 Canberra premises relying on older technology, due for completion by 2030.
The project being delivered across Australia by the NBN Co with a $3 billion Commonwealth equity injection has faced faced hurdles in the ACT, where backyard power poles can struggle to support the cable load required.
Finance Minister and ACT Senator Katy Gallagher said the NBN Co's consultation process was "second to none" but that "there will be some disruption".
NBN Co chief executive Ellie Sweeney said "the vast majority" of the new cables would be installed underground but "there will still be some overground cabling".
"We'll be building pits and pipes ... we're going to reuse as much as we can," Ms Sweeney told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.
"That just goes to resilience. It goes to efficiency, and it goes to the long term nature of this investment."
She conceded that Canberra "has been a challenging build for NBN" but said: "We are absolutely committed to bringing this on time and on budget."
In some cases, there would be disruption to private property as the project progressed.
"We work really closely with local governments, with local communities, to ensure that it is a great experience," Ms Sweeney said.
Senator Gallagher said many ACT residents "have told me they struggle with slow or unreliable connections".
"Canberrans deserve fast, reliable and affordable internet, and this upgrade will make a real difference," she said.
Many Canberrans already have NBN through a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) connection, where the existing copper phone and internet network from a nearby fibre node is used to connect their home to a box in their street.
Under the upgrades being rolled out, people with FTTN connections will be upgraded to the faster, more reliable fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP), where a fibre optic line is run from the nearest available fibre node directly to the home or business.
The upgrades will almost double the number of ACT premises able to access multi-gigabit-capable broadband, with 99 per cent of ACT suburbs expected to be upgraded.
For the remaining one or two suburbs, Ms Sweeney said "the logistics make it uneconomical, but we'll be looking at a better technology than what people are on today, which is copper".
Alternatives could be fixed wireless or a high-speed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service such as Amazon Leo, she said.
Asked if NBN Co saw Elon Musk's Starlink as a competitive threat, Ms Sweeney said the NBN - which haw upgraded more than a million customers to fibre - was seeing its downloads " exponentially growing."
Almost a third of Australians now demanding download speeds of 500 megabits or more, and growing, she said, and, "you can't get that speed on a Starlink."
"We think [Amazon] Leo has a place within Australia. It's great in low density environments," Ms Sweeney said.
"If you think about Australia, those remote areas, it makes a lot of sense, but fibre, globally is recognized as a superior technology. It is the fastest, it is the most scalable, so it will get you up to that multi-mix speed ... It is not impacted by line of sight, and it's not impacted by congestion."
"Once that fibre is in the ground, it's there, and it is only the electronics on either end that we need to upgrade to take those speeds even higher in the decades to come," she said.
The suburbs set to receive the upgrades are:
CALWELL CHAPMAN CHIFLEY CHISHOLM CONDER DUFFY FADDEN FARRER FISHER GILMORE GORDON GOWRIE GREENWAY HOLDER HUME ISAACS ISABELLA PLAINS KAMBAH MACARTHUR MAWSON MONASH O'MALLEY OXLEY PEARCE PHILLIP RICHARDSON RIVETT STIRLING SYMONSTON THEODORE TORRENS WANNIASSA WARAMANGA WESTON ACTON AINSLIE ARANDA BARTON BELCONNEN BRADDON BRUCE CAMPBELL CANBERRA AIRPORT COOK CURTIN DEAKIN DICKSON DOWNER FORREST GARRAN GIRALANG GRIFFITH HACKETT HAWKER HUGHES KALEEN KINGSTON LYNEHAM LYONS MACQUARIE NARRABUNDAH O'CONNOR PARKES PIALLIGO RED HILL REID TURNER WATSON WEETANGERA YARRALUMLA BELCONNEN EVATT FLOREY FLYNN FRASER HALL HIGGINS HOLT LATHAM MACGREGOR MCKELLAR MELBA PAGE SCULLIN SPENCE[/quote]
#ACT #Canberra #NBN #FttP #FuckOffMadmonk
These Canberra suburbs will have faster NBN by 2030 as long-awaited upgrades begin
97,000 Canberra homes to see improved NBN speeds as underground fibre replaces outdated tech, ensuring faster, reliable internet by 2030.
(www.canberratimes.com.au)
@msdropbear thanks Dropsy - this is the reason we went with g.fast in the interim because my suburb is still not slated for upgrade until 2030.
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