The National Broadband Network Co (NBN Co) has released its inaugural 12-month construction outlook, detailing the rollout plan that is expected to cover more than half a million homes and buinsses across Australia.

 

The document lists the communities in each state and territory where construction will begin between now and September 2012.

 

The report outlines 29 new locations as part of the national rollout, which encompasses 485,000 premises where construction of the fibre optic network is expected to commence over the following 12 months. It also lists those sites where the rollout is already underway, accounting for a further 63,500 premises.

 

NBN Co has announced that the report will be updated quarterly to include any additional locations. The report will prelude the issuing of a three-year indicative view of the rollout, which will be updated annually until the completion of the rollout in ten years time.

 

On average it is expected to take 12 months from the start of the fibre network rollout in a given area until individuals are able to receive high-speed broadband over the NBN.

 

"Today's announcement represents the start of a major nationwide construction effort that should eventually see us offer National Broadband Network coverage to every one of Australia's 13 million premises,” NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley said.

 

The next phase of construction will also involve the rollout of the first stage of the transit network, which will connect the different fibre access nodes to points where the traffic will be transferred to service providers. In this first stage NBN Co is planning to construct 149 transit links connecting 155 fibre access nodes, of which 30 are also points of interconnect. 

 

The report can be found here