By Ashley Alasagas
New residents of the River Valley Estate in Sunshine North will be among the first in Brimbank to have access to the NBN network.
Incoming residents of The Banks release, and any subsequent stages, will have landlines and internet connected to the broadband network, but coverage does not extend to existing homes in the River Valley estate.
YourLand Developments director Mark Erskine says the agreement with the NBN is “exciting news for the estate” and the culmination of months of work.
As of this month, the NBN is available to more than a million premises nationally, with about 490,000 homes and businesses already hooked up.
The NBN recently announced it had added another 200,000 Australian premises to its rollout plan, including 21,000 Victorian properties.
The new areas include Berwick, Portsea, Churchill, Port Fairy and Kinglake. Households at Caroline Springs, Hillside, Burnside, Deer Park, Derrimut and Cairnlea, which have no form of broadband access, have been left off the rollout plan.
Brendan O’Connor, shadow minister for employment and workplace relations and Gorton MP, said federal Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull had broken his 2013 promise to connect under-serviced areas to
NBN first.
