Some 3.97 million homes and businesses, representing a third of all Australian premises, will be connected to the $41 billion National Broadband Network by September 2017, NBN Co has forecast. An additional 550,000 homes and businesses across Australia are being added to the rollout of the NBN according to the company’s quarterly construction update.
The update includes work already under way or planned to commence before September 2016 and covers more than 3.1 million Australian homes and businesses.
NBN Co has been tasked with connecting 12.4 million premises by 2020. This figure does not include the 3.4 million homes and businesses that will be reached via the hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) networks recently sold by Telstra and Optus to NBN Co.
