About 100,000 Australian premises will get access to the national broadband network except for our ACT, Tasmania and North Territory cousins.
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A 100,000 more premises around Australia will soon be able to access fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) service on the NBN™.
In October 2020, NBN Co announced more premises with underperforming fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) connections would soon obtain access to the faster fibre-to-the-premises.
The service will allow customers to get access to greater speed broadband plans with up to 50Mbps. However, with the recent announcement, NBN Co plans to introduce residential plans with speed up to 1Gbps however you will need FTTP service. The new installations have been chosen based on forecast demand and convenient installation services.
NBN Co. anticipate a strong demand for higher speed, where it can implement speed, responsiveness, cost-effectiveness and in a way the investment is most likely to positively contribute to the national economy.
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Here are the areas that will soon be able to access faster internet.
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New South Wales metropolitan areas include Campbelltown, Elderslie and Narellan. Maitland, Singleton, Tarro and New Lambton in the Hunter Region. Including country Bathurst and Orange.
Victoria metropolitan areas include Deer Park, Sydenham and Berwick South. In rural locality in Cranbourne and additional areas of Narre Warren.
In Queensland Albany Creek and Ferny Hills in the Moreton Bay region, Ashgrove and Bald Hills located in the City of Brisbane, Robina and Burleigh Heads located on the Gold Coats including country town Townsville.
South Australia metropolitan areas include Salisbury, Gepps Cross, Elizabeth and Golden Grove.
Western Australia metropolitan areas include Girrawheen, Kingsley, Wanneroo, Canning Vale and South of Jandakot.
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NBN Co is engaged in consultation with retail service providers who sell access to the network.
They are in the process by which eligible customers will be informed of and can inquire about availability and express their interest in ordering a higher speed broadband.
This means that telco’s will most likely contact their subscribers if faster internet speed is available in their area.
The future plan is to have at least eight million locations, three quarter of fixed line network and connections where they can access the highest available speeds by 2023.