Caroline Springs and Burnside will be among the first Australian suburbs to get NBN fibre-to-the-curb connections.
The company will begin rolling out the service in the first half of next year and expects that at that time 100,000 homes and businesses across Australia will be ready to connect.
As the name suggests, FTTC technology delivers fibre to the footpath, outside a home. The fibre is then connected to a small distribution unit, then uses the existing copper lines to deliver broadband to the premises.
NBN won’t need to conduct works at each address, as has been the case with fibre-to-the-premises connections.
NBN chief network engineering officer Peter Ryan said the FTTC technology could deliver the same speeds as FTTP.
“We are delighted to be leading the world in deployment of FTTC technology,” Mr Ryan said.
“Our goal is to deliver broadband in the most cost and time efficient manner possible, and FTTC will help us do this in many parts of the NBN network.”
Coburg North businesses will be the first to trial the new technology in the second half of this year.
NBN updated its website last week, providing information about the 700,000 Australian homes and businesses that will eventually FTTC rolled out to their areas.
Details: nbnco.com.au
