NBN Co
After officially excluding Fibre to the Premises technology from the future of the National Broadband Network, NBN Co has released its first "multi-technology mix" rollout plan, indicating how the next 1.9 million premises will be connected to the NBN.
The list includes more than 400 cities, suburbs and towns in every state and territory across Australia, and details how each region will be connected -- using either wireless connectivity, or the multi-technology mix that incorporates Fibre to the Node technology. In those places where the FTTP build has already commenced, this technology has also been incorporated into the rollout plan.
The first indications that the NBN rollout would move away from connections to individual premises officially shelved
However, the technology is not completely off the table, with NBN Co chief Bill Morrow today saying it may be necessary to compensate for flaws in existing copper network infrastructure.
"When we actually get into a given neighbourhood, we may discover that the copper is not in the condition that we had expected it to be in or above the threshold level that we need it to be in," Morrow told the ABC. "So you may see an alternative technology move from a Fibre to the Node over to either a Fixed Wireless or maybe even a Fibre to the Premises."
Morrow also indicated that NBN Co could opt for "fibre closer to the home" by extending fibre further from the node towards homes and businesses in order to increase capacity.
For now, NBN Co has updated its rollout map to include the new build locations, and you can see the full state-by-state list of locations included in the new construction plan (along with the number of premises connected and the technology used) below.
NSW Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Albion Park 9,500 Multi-Technology Mix Alstonville 200 Wireless Appin 300 Multi-Technology Mix Avalon Beach 6,900 Multi-Technology Mix Braidwood 400 Wireless Bega 900 Wireless Berowra 4,200 Multi-Technology Mix Blayney 200 Wireless Bellingen 400 Wireless Blacktown 2,300 Fibre to the Premises Boolaroo 15,600 Multi-Technology Mix Belmont 12,700 Multi-Technology Mix Bermagui 900 Wireless Bombala 200 Wireless Bathurst 1,500 Wireless Batemans Bay 1,200 Wireless Buff Point 13,200 Multi-Technology Mix Bawley Point 400 Wireless Camden Haven 4,000 Multi-Technology Mix Callala Bay 1,900 Multi-Technology Mix Campsie 4,700 Fibre to the Premises Campbelltown 24,100 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Charlestown 4,000 Multi-Technology Mix Cooma 1,000 Wireless Corrimal 13,500 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix CoroWa 200 Wireless Casino 300 Wireless Cootamundra 200 Wireless Cowra 3,000 Multi-Technology Mix Cowra 200 Wireless Dubbo 14,500 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Dungog 100 Wireless Deniliquin 400 Wireless Finley 1,100 Wireless Gundagai 200 Wireless Gerringong 1,700 Multi-Technology Mix Griffith 200 Wireless Goulburn 9,500 Multi-Technology Mix Gosford 2,100 Fibre to the Premises Gorokan 21,000 Multi-Technology Mix Grafton 1,200 Wireless Gulgong 1,000 Multi-Technology Mix Gulgong 400 Wireless Hamilton 47,100 Multi-Technology Mix Hastings Point 700 Wireless Harrington 300 Wireless Homebush 4,600 Fibre to the Premises Howlong 400 Wireless Jindabyne 500 Wireless Kingscliff 500 Wireless Kellyville 25,300 Multi-Technology Mix Kiama 700 Wireless Kempsey 400 Wireless Katoomba 14,700 Multi-Technology Mix Kyogle 200 Wireless Lavington 300 Wireless Lismore 2,200 Wireless Liverpool 4,400 Fibre to the Premises Long Jetty 4,500 Fibre to the Premises Maitland 13,500 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Maitland 1,300 Wireless Maclean 600 Wireless Mudgee 5,100 Multi-Technology Mix Merimbula 1,000 Wireless Mulgoa 1,500 Fibre to the Premises Molong 700 Multi-Technology Mix Molong 400 Wireless Marulan 400 Wireless Morisset 10,200 Multi-Technology Mix Moss Vale 10,000 Multi-Technology Mix Moss Vale 1,000 Wireless Mittagong 4,200 Multi-Technology Mix Mullumbimby 200 Wireless Muswellbrook 100 Wireless Blackheath 3,000 Multi-Technology Mix Moruya 600 Wireless Mayfield 8,500 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Narara 8,000 Multi-Technology Mix Nelson Bay 16,000 Multi-Technology Mix New Lambton 28,600 Multi-Technology Mix Elderslie 5,000 Multi-Technology Mix Narooma 500 Wireless Narellan 23,400 Multi-Technology Mix Nowra-Bomaderry 14,300 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Nowra-Bomaderry 1,100 Wireless The Oaks 400 Multi-Technology Mix Oberon 100 Wireless Orange 16,000 Multi-Technology Mix Orange 700 Wireless Port Kembla 18,000 Multi-Technology Mix Parkes 200 Wireless Penrith 7,400 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Quirindi 100 Wireless Richmond 400 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Rouse Hill 8,400 Multi-Technology Mix St Georges Basin-Sanctuary Point 10,000 Multi-Technology Mix St Georges Basin-Sanctuary Point 1,000 Wireless Shell Harbour 15,400 Multi-Technology Mix Shoalhaven Heads 100 Wireless Singleton 2,300 Wireless Sussex Inlet 2,200 Multi-Technology Mix South West Rocks 3,000 Multi-Technology Mix Tahmoor 7,500 Fibre to the Premises Temora 300 Wireless Terranora 700 Wireless Terrigal 17,500 Multi-Technology Mix The Rock 300 Wireless Tumut 200 Wireless Tweed Heads 26,400 Multi-Technology Mix Ulladulla 1,600 Wireless Wagga Wagga 100 Wireless Wauchope 100 Wireless Wellington 2,100 Multi-Technology MixNSW Wellington 200 Wireless Woolgoolga 600 Wireless Wollongong 9,800 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Woy Woy 33,000 Multi-Technology Mix Wyong 8,400 Multi-Technology Mix Yass 1,800 Multi-Technology Mix Yass 700 Wireless Young 4,000 Multi-Technology Mix
VIC Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Apollo Bay-Marengo 2,200 Multi-Technology Mix Anglesea 2,700 Multi-Technology Mix Alexandra 400 Wireless Bairnsdale 2,500 Wireless Bannockburn 1,300 Multi-Technology Mix Bendigo 200 Wireless Ballan 1,000 Multi-Technology Mix Ballarat 2,000 Fibre to the Premises Ballarat 300 Wireless Broadford 1,400 Multi-Technology Mix Beaconsfield Upper 12,000 Multi-Technology Mix Castlemaine 3,800 Multi-Technology Mix Cobram 1,300 Wireless Chiltern 100 Wireless Clunes 900 Multi-Technology Mix Cobden 200 Wireless Cohuna 1,000 Wireless Colac 4,200 Multi-Technology Mix Colac 2,700 Wireless Cowes 6,300 Multi-Technology Mix Craigieburn 18,400 Multi-Technology Mix Dimboola 600 Wireless Dromana 7,500 Multi-Technology Mix Daylesford 2,100 Multi-Technology Mix Eaglehawk 1,500 Wireless Echuca-Moama 800 Wireless Foster 200 Wireless Footscray 4,000 Fibre to the Premises Garfield 1,400 Multi-Technology Mix Garfield 1,100 Wireless Hamilton 200 Wireless Heyfield 500 Multi-Technology Mix Heyfield 700 Wireless Inverloch 3,800 Multi-Technology Mix Karingal 2,600 Fibre to the Premises Kerang 1,100 Wireless Keysborough 2,200 Fibre to the Premises Kings Park 4,200 Multi-Technology Mix Kilmore 2,300 Multi-Technology Mix Kyabram 2,600 Wireless Kyneton 2,300 Multi-Technology Mix Kyneton 200 Wireless Lang Lang 1,700 Wireless Lorne 2,000 Multi-Technology Mix Mount Macedon 5,400 Multi-Technology Mix Mirboo North 600 Multi-Technology Mix Mildura 1,600 Wireless Mansfield 1,000 Wireless Melton 2,400 Fibre to the Premises Moe-Yallourn 1,600 Wireless Mornington 14,400 Multi-Technology Mix Mount Eliza 2,300 Fibre to the Premises Mortlake 300 Wireless Myrtleford 700 Wireless Nathalia 300 Wireless Numurkah 1,300 Wireless Newhaven 3,000 Multi-Technology Mix Ocean Grove-Barwon Heads 13,200 Multi-Technology Mix Orbost 1,000 Wireless Portarlington 9,500 Multi-Technology Mix Rochester 400 Wireless Romsey 1,400 Multi-Technology Mix Robinvale 300 Wireless Rye 11,500 Multi-Technology Mix Sale 500 Wireless Shoreham 3,400 Multi-Technology Mix Shepparton 9,800 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Wedderburn 1,000 Wireless St Arnaud 300 Wireless Stratford 1,800 Multi-Technology Mix Sunbury 8,000 Multi-Technology Mix Traralgon 10,500 Multi-Technology Mix Traralgon 100 Wireless Tooradin 1,300 Multi-Technology Mix Torquay 8,000 Multi-Technology Mix Wangaratta 8,000 Multi-Technology Mix Wangaratta 1,400 Wireless Warburton 1,800 Multi-Technology Mix Warrnambool 14,700 Multi-Technology Mix Warrnambool 1,500 Wireless Wodonga 400 Wireless Werribee 4,400 Fibre to the Premises Warragul 11,000 Multi-Technology Mix Warragul 2,300 Wireless Winchelsea 700 Multi-Technology Mix Warracknabeal 600 Wireless Wallan 5,700 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Wonthaggi 4,000 Multi-Technology Mix Whittlesea 2,200 Multi-Technology Mix Yarrawonga-Mulwala 300 Wireless
QLD Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Acacia Ridge 9,600 Fibre to the Premises Agnes Water 500 Wireless Airlie Beach 4,800 Multi-Technology Mix Airlie Beach 200 Wireless Alice River 1,000 Multi-Technology Mix Aspley 2,000 Fibre to the Premises Atherton 3,600 Multi-Technology Mix Atherton 400 Wireless Ayr 3,400 Multi-Technology Mix Bundaberg 25,700 Multi-Technology Mix Bundaberg 1,300 Wireless Babinda 600 Multi-Technology Mix Babinda 500 Wireless Bundamba 1,600 Fibre to the Premises Beaudesert 3,000 Multi-Technology Mix Beaudesert 600 Wireless Biloela 900 Wireless Blackbutt 400 Wireless Boonah 400 Wireless Bribie Island 12,500 Multi-Technology Mix Beerwah 1,300 Wireless Bowen 2,500 Multi-Technology Mix Caboolture 23,700 Multi-Technology Mix Childers 500 Wireless Cooktown 700 Multi-Technology Mix Calliope 400 Wireless Collinsville 1,100 Multi-Technology Mix Dalby 4,400 Multi-Technology Mix Deeragun 9,200 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Deeragun 1,000 Wireless Dayboro 400 Multi-Technology Mix Edge Hill 8,400 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Edmonton 10,500 Multi-Technology Mix Freshwater 7,200 Fibre to the Premises Frenchville 13,200 Multi-Technology Mix Gatton 7,600 Multi-Technology Mix Gladstone 700 Wireless Gordonvale 2,200 Multi-Technology Mix Greenbank 4,400 Fibre to the Premises Gympie 14,100 Multi-Technology Mix Gympie 5,300 Wireless Howard 1,500 Wireless Half Tide Beach 600 Multi-Technology Mix Half Tide Beach 500 Wireless Ingham 1,700 Multi-Technology Mix Ingham 1,500 Wireless Innisfail 4,200 Multi-Technology Mix Innisfail 1,500 Wireless Ipswich 1,800 Fibre to the Premises Jimboomba 4,800 Multi-Technology Mix Kilcoy 400 Wireless Petrie 4,000 Fibre to the Premises Kingsthorpe 600 Multi-Technology Mix Lammermoor 1,100 Wireless Logan Village 200 Multi-Technology Mix Maleny 2,300 Wireless Maryborough 1,600 Wireless Samford 2,200 Multi-Technology Mix Mareeba 3,600 Multi-Technology Mix Mareeba 1,200 Wireless Mission Beach 1,900 Multi-Technology Mix Mackay 3,300 Fibre to the Premises Mackay 100 Wireless Maudsland 400 Multi-Technology Mix Maudsland 300 Wireless Moranbah 3,400 Multi-Technology Mix Monto 500 Wireless Mirani 500 Multi-Technology Mix Mount Morgan 100 Wireless Murgon 1,200 Wireless Maroochydore 13,800 Multi-Technology Mix Nanango 300 Wireless Nambour 8,400 Multi-Technology Mix Nambour 400 Wireless Nudgee 8,200 Fibre to the Premises Newtown 21,000 Multi-Technology Mix North Gooburrum 2,000 Wireless Ningi 3,400 Multi-Technology Mix Oakey 1,900 Multi-Technology Mix Port Douglas 5,000 Multi-Technology Mix Pomona 600 Wireless Proserpine 1,500 Multi-Technology Mix Proserpine 300 Wireless Parkhurst 2,100 Multi-Technology Mix Redland Bay 1,800 Multi-Technology Mix Ravenshoe 300 Wireless Rockhampton 11,500 Multi-Technology Mix Rosewood 1,600 Multi-Technology Mix Sarina 1,700 Multi-Technology Mix Haliday Bay 900 Multi-Technology Mix Haliday Bay 200 Wireless Cairns Smithfield 12,600 Multi-Technology Mix Cairns Smithfield 300 Wireless St George 200 Wireless Townsville 6,800 Fibre to the Premises Tully 1,200 Wireless Warner 13,200 Multi-Technology Mix Wurtulla 19,800 Multi-Technology Mix
SA Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Aldinga 1,300 Fibre to the Premises Barmera 700 Multi-Technology Mix Bordertown 200 Wireless Balaklava 700 Multi-Technology Mix Berri 1,400 Multi-Technology Mix Berri 300 Wireless Burra 400 Multi-Technology Mix Ceduna 300 Wireless Crystal Brook 500 Multi-Technology Mix Clare 1,200 Multi-Technology Mix Clare 500 Wireless St Marys 27,800 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Gawler 10,000 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Goolwa 4,600 Multi-Technology Mix Goolwa 800 Wireless Gepps Cross 14,700 Multi-Technology Mix Jamestown 500 Multi-Technology Mix Kapunda 800 Multi-Technology Mix Lenswood 4,400 Multi-Technology Mix Lonsdale 21,000 Multi-Technology Mix Loxton 1,600 Multi-Technology Mix Macclesfield 1,000 Fibre to the Premises Meningie 100 Multi-Technology Mix Mannum 800 Multi-Technology Mix Modbury 2,000 Fibre to the Premises Mt Barker 9,600 Multi-Technology Mix Mount Gambier 400 Wireless Murray Bridge 7,200 Multi-Technology Mix Murray Bridge 400 Wireless Nuriootpa 4,500 Multi-Technology Mix Nuriootpa 600 Wireless Port Broughton 1,100 Multi-Technology Mix Penola 200 Wireless Port Pirie 6,300 Multi-Technology Mix Port Pirie 1,600 Wireless Port Augusta 5,900 Fibre to the Premises Port Elliot and Victor Harbor 1,700 Fibre to the Premises Port Elliot and Victor Harbor 600 Wireless Peterborough 700 Multi-Technology Mix Peterborough 400 Wireless Port Lincoln 1,000 Wireless Reynella 8,000 Multi-Technology Mix Renmark 2,500 Multi-Technology Mix Riverton 400 Multi-Technology Mix Strathalbyn 200 Wireless Stirling 6,000 Multi-Technology Mix Tailem Bend 500 Multi-Technology Mix Waikerie 400 Multi-Technology Mix Waikerie 200 Wireless Yankalilla 2,400 Fibre to the Premises Yankalilla 500 Wireless Yorketown 700 Wireless
WA Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Albany 600 Wireless Applecross 2,200 Fibre to the Premises Armadale 18,000 Multi-Technology Mix Australind 8,800 Multi-Technology Mix Augusta 500 Wireless Bridgetown 600 Wireless Bunbury 22,000 Multi-Technology Mix Brunswick Junction 500 Wireless Busselton 10,500 Multi-Technology Mix Busselton 500 Wireless Cannington 24,000 Multi-Technology Mix Cervantes 400 Multi-Technology Mix South Coogee 12,000 Multi-Technology Mix Collie 2,800 Multi-Technology Mix Collie 300 Wireless Capel 700 Multi-Technology Mix Dunsborough 3,400 Multi-Technology Mix Dunsborough 1,100 Wireless Doubleview 14,700 Multi-Technology Mix Dongara 2,000 Multi-Technology Mix Denmark 100 Wireless Donnybrook 1,000 Multi-Technology Mix Geraldton 5,500 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Herron 13,200 Multi-Technology Mix Harvey 1,400 Multi-Technology Mix Jurien 1,500 Multi-Technology Mix Jurien 100 Wireless Karratha 6,000 Multi-Technology Mix Katanning 900 Wireless Kelmscott 9,500 Multi-Technology Mix Kalbarri 2,000 Multi-Technology Mix Leeman 700 Multi-Technology Mix Lancelin 1,100 Multi-Technology Mix Lancelin 200 Wireless Merredin 600 Wireless Mandurah 11,500 Fibre to the Premises Myalup 700 Multi-Technology Mix Margaret River 700 Wireless Meadow Springs 2,300 Fibre to the Premises Narrogin 600 Wireless Northampton 500 Multi-Technology Mix Northam 100 Wireless Pingelly 700 Wireless Pinjarra 500 Wireless Preston Beach 500 Multi-Technology Mix Quinns Rocks 14,000 Multi-Technology Mix Rockingham 19,800 Multi-Technology Mix South Perth 9,000 Fibre to the Premises Toodyay 1,600 Wireless Victoria Park 7,200 Fibre to the Premises Woodridge Estate 1,000 Multi-Technology Mix Wongan Hills 800 Wireless Waroona 600 Multi-Technology Mix
TAS Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Bridport 900 Multi-Technology Mix Beaconsfield 600 Multi-Technology Mix Beaconsfield 200 Wireless Bellerive 1,000 Fibre to the Premises Bicheno 800 Multi-Technology Mix Burnie 8,400 Multi-Technology Mix Cambridge 5,000 Multi-Technology Mix Campbell Town 700 Multi-Technology Mix Cremorne 900 Multi-Technology Mix Cygnet 500 Multi-Technology Mix Cygnet 200 Wireless Devonport 8,800 Multi-Technology Mix Dodges Ferry 2,500 Multi-Technology Mix Dodges Ferry 500 Wireless East Devonport 3,300 Multi-Technology Mix Evandale 400 Multi-Technology Mix Exeter 300 Multi-Technology Mix Geeveston 800 Multi-Technology Mix Hobart 8,300 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Huonville-Ranelagh 1,300 Multi-Technology Mix Huonville-Ranelagh 600 Wireless Launceston 2,200 Fibre to the Premises Legana 2,000 Multi-Technology Mix Longford 1,200 Multi-Technology Mix Margate 1,900 Multi-Technology Mix New Norfolk 2,300 Multi-Technology Mix New Norfolk 500 Wireless Glenorchy (Claremont) 18,000 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Orford 1,400 Multi-Technology Mix Penguin 3,600 Multi-Technology Mix Perth 1,100 Multi-Technology Mix Pontville 1,600 Multi-Technology Mix Port Sorell 2,100 Multi-Technology Mix Queenstown 1,200 Multi-Technology Mix Railton 700 Multi-Technology Mix Richmond 400 Multi-Technology Mix Rosebery 600 Multi-Technology Mix Rosebery 300 Wireless Scamander 500 Multi-Technology Mix Scottsdale 400 Wireless South Launceston 6,800 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix South Arm 700 Multi-Technology Mix St Marys 400 Multi-Technology Mix Swansea 800 Multi-Technology Mix Swansea 600 Wireless Taroona 1,500 Multi-Technology Mix Ulverstone 2,400 Multi-Technology Mix Windermere 2,100 Multi-Technology Mix Westbury 1,300 Multi-Technology Mix Wynyard 1,800 Multi-Technology Mix Zeehan 500 Multi-Technology Mix
NT Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Alice Springs 9,200 Multi-Technology Mix Berrimah 1,700 Fibre to the Premises Palmerston 8,700 Fibre to the Premises Katherine 2,200 Multi-Technology Mix Nhulunbuy 1,200 Multi-Technology Mix Nightcliff 1,600 Fibre to the Premises Tennant Creek 1,000 Multi-Technology Mix
ACT Region/Suburb/Town Estimated number of premises Technology Crace 1,300 Fibre to the Premises Civic 16,800 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Kambah 16,100 Multi-Technology Mix Queanbeyan 10,700 Fibre to the Premises, Multi-Technology Mix Scullin 23,100 Multi-Technology Mix
