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The NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, says it has hit another milestone with six million homes and businesses now able to connect to the network.
In a statement, the company said the fibre-to-the-node and HFC cable deployments were responsible for the increased pace of rollouts.
More than half of the six million premises claimed to be NBN-ready are supplied by one of these technologies.
The NBN Co said the network was now being rolled out faster than ever, with close to 100,000 premises being made serviceable each week over the last three months.
{loadposition sam08}However, less than 50% of these premises have actually connected to the NBN, with the company saying that 2.7 million premises were now accessing retail services. It claimed that about 40,000 new customers were joining each week.
The company said the network build had passed the halfway mark and would be three-quarters done by mid-2018 and completed by 2020.
NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow said: “The pace and scale of this project is unparalleled anywhere in the world and this latest milestone – six million ready for service – is testament to this fact.
“Very few operators have built a network as fast as we are building the NBN with more than 1.1 million premises made serviceable over the last three months. We are extremely proud of everyone who has helped us to this point.
“The last three years have been dedicated to getting the network on track for a 2020 delivery. We won't be taking our foot off the pedal until we are done, but our focus on the actual end-user experience is more important than ever as we work with industry to connect the country at scale.
"The numbers and the momentum are important but contented end users are the key to success and we have every intention of delivering on our plan of connecting eight million happy homes and businesses by 2020.”
