Australian broadband network operator nbn and the government have announced that more properties in towns and cities in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania will be eligible to have fibre optic connections to their homes or businesses.
The network enhancements are designed to provide faster speeds and more data to reflect and support the business and social changes of the past two years. With a 147 percent increase in online health advice, a 114 percent increase in online secondary education participation and a third of people who could work from home now wanting to work from home at least one day a week, according to Venture research commissioned by nbn, the company also aims to support the growing demand for faster speeds and more data from Australian businesses.
Nbn says it expects to make nbn Home Ultrafast accessible to up to 10 million premises or up to 90 percent of Australian homes and businesses, offering wholesale download speeds of 500Mb/s to nearly 1Gb/s by the end of 2025.
We are unlocking the social and economic benefits across Australia by bringing fibre deeper into communities," said Kathrine Dyer, Chief Operating Officer of nbn. Fiber is inherently more capable of delivering faster upload and download speeds, is often more reliable than copper connections, and reduces our ongoing maintenance and operating costs. To date, we have identified suburbs and towns across Australia where, by the end of 2025, customers living and working in approximately three million premises currently connected to nodes by nbn fibre will have access to a complete fibre upgrade. In just six years data usage has tripled on the nbn network - and this exponential growth is expected to continue as customer demand for new technology increases."
