Gympie selected for NBN Rollout
21st October, 2014
Gympie is set to join a limited number of areas across Australia as part of a new technology trial to speed up the NBN rollout, Federal Member for Wide Bay and Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss announced today. “Gympie has been chosen as part of NBN Co.’s trial to roll out new vectored VDSL technology using fibre to the node connections,” Mr Truss said.
Suburbs included in the initial rollout include:
• Banks Pocket,
• East Deep Creek,
• Glanmire,
• Gympie,
• Jones Hill,
• Monkland,
• Mothar Mountain,
• Pie Creek,
• Southside,
• Two Mile,
• Victory Heights,
“As an indicator of the magnitude of the upgrades being delivered to Gympie, existing subscribers to NBN Co.’s fibre to the node network have reported average speeds of 90mbps of download and 36mbps of upload speed.
“As a point of comparison, the improved bandwidth available through these upgrades will be enough to allow a single premises to stream more than 15 high definition video streams at once,” Mr Truss said.
“Over coming weeks, people can expect to see workers in the streets of Gympie, planning the NBN rollout and starting construction work on the fibre to the node network.”
“Part of the Government’s consideration in the fibre to the node rollout, is to prioritize under-serviced areas, as promised during the 2013 election. This has led to an unprecedented upgrade in activity to deliver internet service across Wide Bay under the Government’s NBN plan,” Mr Truss said.
Users are expected to be eligible to connect to high speed services in 2015.
Specific information on the areas being included under NBN’s FTTN rollout can be found at www.nbnco.com.au/maps.
