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March 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda NBN Co Ltd boss Mike Quigley says the launch of the three-year rollout schedule for the high speed national broadband network (NBN) is a “turning point” for the federal government project.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Mr Quigley on Thursday announced details of the rollout at a special event in Sydney.
Over the next three years, construction of the fibre optic cable section of the network will be underway or completed in areas containing 3.5 million homes and businesses in 1500 towns and suburbs across Australia.
“We are moving out of doing the trials, doing all the planning, all the negotiations with Telstra deal, submissions with the ACCC,” Mr Quigley told AAP.
“Today we are really announcing stage one of the large-scale rollout.”
NBN Co, the government-owned builder of the $35.9 billion network, is commissioned to deliver high-speed fibre cable broadband to 93 per cent of homes, schools and businesses by 2021.
Some four per cent of premises will receive broadband through fixed wireless networks, while the remaining three per cent will have a satellite service in areas that don’t receive cable or wireless.
The ramping up of the rollout program follows the sealing of agreements between NBN Co and the owner of Australia’s aging copper wire network Telstra, which took effect at the beginning of March.
Several hurdles have slowed the build of the NBN, including a delay in the competition watchdog’s approval of Telstra’s plan to split its wholesale and retail arms.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission approved Telstra’s plan in February, eight months after the telco, NBN Co and the government signed definitive agreements in June 2011.
Mr Quigley said several factors decided the locations of the towns and suburbs in the three-year rollout.
“We had to take into account what the government asked us to do, which was get to a balance between regional and metropolitan Australia, get a good balance across the states and complete Tasmania by 2015,” Mr Quigley said.
The availability of Telstra infrastructure to make connections was also a constraint.
New suburbs at the outer reaches of major cities, known as greenfield sites, were also a priority.
Mr Quigley said the fixed wireless rollout to provide broadband services to rural Australia will be done as soon as possible.
It will take an average 12 months from the release by NBN Co of detailed maps of each location to when households and businesses can order broadband services from their telephone or internet service provider.
Mr Quigley dismissed claims the selected locations were due to politic considerations.
“Our planners wouldn’t know an electoral boundary if they fell over one,” he said.
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