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NBN Co adds 'burbs to copper map, claims 'speed up' rollout

140 lucky locations won't get fibre

NBN Co has re-designated 140 suburbs from fibre-to-the-premises to fibre-to-the-node, a move it says will deliver high-speed connections to the target locations earlier than would otherwise have been a case.

In NSW, the deployment decision covers parts of the Central Coast, Newcastle and Lake Macquarie regions, while in Queensland, it covers greater Brisbane, Moreton Bay and Wide Bay-Burnett.

The company's chief customer officer John Simon says the announcement will bring “fast and reliable” broadband to 200,000 premises sooner than expected, since the locations were “not earmarked to receive the NBN in the coming 12 months”.

The lucky candidate suburbs are listed here.

NBN Co describes the 1,300-node build as part of a “national trial” that tests FTTN “planning, design and construction”. If the rollout proceeds according to plan, the build would let NBN Co boost its deployment numbers in 2016, which is (purely coincidentally) an election year.

Until such times as a deal covering Telstra's copper is signed, all FTTN deployments are more-or-less on a trial basis, needing location-by-location negotiation for infrastructure access.

Earlier this month, Telstra CEO David Thodey warned that the negotiations over a contract to replace the existing Telstra-NBN Co-government contract will stretch into 2015. ®

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