Following a rollout spanning eight years, NBN has announced that 300,000 more businesses and homes, including those in Avalon Beach, will be upgraded from fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband connections.
The company stated that the NBN fibre upgrade expansion will increase the total number of eligible areas with NBN fibre speed of up to 1Gbps to 1.4 million across the country as part of its $3.5 billion network investment program.
Switching from fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) entails replacing the old copper wiring technology that delivers slower internet. FTTP is now the fastest internet connection in the country.
The upgrade will mean no more buffering issues which will benefit households with at least four logged-on users simultaneously. This is especially significant to residents who are working from home whilst the kids are also learning online.
Apart from Avalon Beach, the following NSW areas will also receive upgrades:
Albion Park Rail, Alstonville, Ambarvale, Banora Point, Beaumont Hills, Berkeley, Brighton-Le-Sands, Broulee, Bundeena, Callala Bay, Callala Beach, Campbelltown, Currans Hill, Dalmeny, Farmborough Heights, Figtree, Glen Alpine, Glenmore Park, Glenwood, Goonellabah, Goulburn, Harrington Park, Kellyville, Kellyville Ridge, Keiraville, Lake Heights, Lennox Heads, Mollymook Beach, Mount Warrigal, North Nowra, Palm Beach, Pottsville, Rouse Hill, Ruse, Stanhope Gardens, Sussex Inlet, Sutherland, The Ponds, Tweed Heads, Tweed Heads South, Unanderra, Warrawong, Windang, and Yamba.
“We’re very pleased to announce the latest list of suburbs and towns across Australia – from Avalon Beach on Sydney’s northern beaches peninsula to Fremantle, Western Australia – that will ultimately see around 2 million FTTN premises become eligible to upgrade to Fibre to the Premises and gain access to NBN Home Ultrafast services, on demand,” NBN Co chief operating officer Katherine Dyer said.
“We will launch a small-scale pilot of the FTTN to FTTP upgrade program to enable the first eligible premises to access a higher speed NBN Home Fast, NBN Home Superfast or NBN Home Ultrafast service via their chosen internet retailer in November this year.”
Essentially, customers may opt for the FTTP plan with their internet service provider once the upgrades are done.
