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2007 NBN announced 2009 NBN started as FTTP to the Premises. 2010 First customers finally connected in July. Three years went by. Sep 2013 then ALP lose the election. Nov 2013 110,000 customers have now signed on (1½% of Australia) with 98½% to go. 355,000 households have been passed (5%), but 245,000 of them were without agreements. Very awkward roll out, slow, expensive, note fibre optic is more fragile than copper. Dec 2013 New options FTTB (Fibre to the Building), FTTC (Fibre to the Curb), and in particular FTTN (Fibre to the Node) brought massive acceleration to the rollout. FTTN, FTTB, FTTC combined with VDSL2 (very high speed DSL over Telephone Cable) its power boosted up to 30MHz, its download speed varying within 300 metres distance from the fibre-optic cable: 100Mbps+, 1 km: 50Mbps, 2km: 15Mbps, 3km: 8Mbps, 4-5 km: back to 1-4Mbps Rollout continued 2014 250,000 users, the network increasing by 140,000 from 2013 2015 500,000 users, it doubled from 2014 2016 1 million users, it doubled from 2015 2017 2½ million users, an increase of 1½ million 2018 4 million users, an increase of 1½ million 2019 5½ million users, an increase of 1½ million 2020 7.4 million users in June 2020 2021 8.4 million users in June 2021 2022 8.7 million users in June 2022 2023 8.8 million users in December 2023
NBN Dec 2024
Base Connections 8.8m
According to Forbes Advisor in 2023 there are more than 170 Internet Service Providers (or RSPs Retail Service Providers) in Australia providing backhaul to the NBN.
Click here for some of them, according to Wikipedia. Only 6 RSPs service more than 500,000 connections.
These are
Telstra 3.37m 38.3%
TPG 1.75m 20%
Optus 1m 12.4%
Vocus (Dodo,iPrimus) 770t 8.8%
Aussie Broadband 680t 7.8%
Superloop 540t 6.1%
Others 585t 6.7%
Technology Types
FTTN 2.6m 29%
FTTP 2.47m 28%
HFC (Hybrid Fibre Coaxial) 2m 23%
FTTC (Curb) 960t 11%
FixedWireless 405t 5%
FTTB (Building) 280t 3%
Satellite 81t 1%
Non-NBN Connections
Mobile Broadband 4.2m
Home Wireless 550t
Fibre 250t
Starlink Satellite 200t
Following Data extracted from www.canstarblue.com.au
POIs are nodes that connect your home to the internet. Connecting your home is a multi-step process
Usually housed in select telephone exchange buildings, there's 121 across Australia's states, servicing every household on the network.
Below you'll find the full list, split up by state.
An interim POI is utilised when a permanent POI has not been developed yet, typically in new areas.
Once a permanent POI has been established, household internet traffic will go through the newly created POI.
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