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nbn™ loses chief operating officer Greg Adcock

So long and thanks for all the contracts, says nbn™ CEO Morrow

nbn™, the entity building Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has announced that chief operating officer Greg Adcock has departed the company.

nbn™ is not saying why, but says he's staying on in “an advisory role reporting direct to the Chief Executive Officer until his departure.”

Adcock was an early Turnbull-era hire at nbn™, clambering aboard in November 2013. He's since overseen the company’s “network design and deployment activities” and handled the creation of “a new industry partnership model and contract management framework.”

The statement about Adcock's departure is full of praise and bonhomie from nbn™ CEO Bill Morrow, who says Adcock's efforts have left the company “ready to scale and accelerate the build of the nbn™ network.” Morrow says that Adcock leaves a legacy of “the stabilising and ramping up of the FTTP build program, the kickstart of the FTTN build, and the launch of our first satellite.”

Peter Ryan, previously the executive general manager for regional deployment at nbn™, will fill Adcock's role in a temporary capacity while headhunters find someone to occupy the chair for the foreseeable future.

nbn™ keeps saying it is ready to deliver fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) connections at a rate of thousands every working day for the next few years. Adcock is credited with making that possible.

So is his departure a case of “mission accomplished” or “holy confused connections, Batman!”?

nbn™'s kind words for the departing exec suggest the former scenario. If we learn of delays to the FTTN rollout, perhaps it will be time to assume the latter. ®

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