18 June 2013

NBN rollout starts in Belconnen

18 June 2013 | johnboy

Andrew Leigh is celebrating the start of NBN work in the Belconnen area:

Construction has commenced to bring the NBN to hundreds of households in the Belconnen area, Member for Fraser, Andrew Leigh said today.

Andrew Leigh today welcomed the release of detailed maps by NBN Co, showing where construction of the National Broadband Network (NBN) will start in Aranda, Belconnen and parts of Macquarie and Cook.

“The map shows that NBN fibre is being rolled out in Belconnen which will allow more residents access to faster, affordable and more reliable broadband.

Getting Aranda in early will no doubt save a pretty penny in correspondence.

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JC9:33 pm 19 Jun 13

Alien Fiend said :

And what happened to Nicholls? The forgotten Gungahlin suburb with no ADSL2.

Really? Two friends of mine live in Nicholls, both off Temperly Street at the Curran Drive end and they both have ADSL2, one with DODO and the other Bigpond. Now must admit I thought all of Nicholls was on a RIM, so ADSL2 with Bigpond only (Telstra must resell ADSL1, max speed on a RIM of 2meg but not ADSL2) but the other guys is with Dodo and also gets ADSL2 speeds.

I live in Dunlop, also on a RIM, used to be with iiNET on ADSL1 max speed 2meg, changed to Bigpond and now get 8meg.

Alien Fiend8:37 pm 19 Jun 13

And what happened to Nicholls? The forgotten Gungahlin suburb with no ADSL2.

poetix4:57 pm 19 Jun 13

And every time I try to enter my address at the NBN site to see when we will be connected, the iPad swoons and quits. Some would call this irony, but perhaps it illustrates the need for the NBN.

Or perhaps it is something to do with iPads.

I don’t know.

poetix4:06 pm 19 Jun 13

O’Connor is marked in orange, too. Or at least some of it. I can’t figure out exactly which bit, but I think it’s the wrong bit. (-:

Ghettosmurf873:29 pm 19 Jun 13

Watson said :

Our part of Casey didn’t get NBN yet. We do have fibre to the home. Not sure if that’s worse, but I am not very happy about the limited choice of ISPs compared to NBN.

That’s what BBQNinja explained in post#8.

Fibre to the home is essentially the same infrastructure as what the NBN is, it just happens to be owned by TransACT. This is why your internet is currently only offered by a limited number of ISP’s which TransACT allows to use it’s infrastructure.

NBN Co is in the process of buying this infrastructure from TransACT, at which point I would imagine it will be opened up to all the ISP’s that will be offering the NBN to other people around Canberra and you can signup with one of them.

Until the sale goes through however, you are stuck in the same situation you currently are being gouged by the monopoly that TransACT has in suburbs like Casey & Crace.

Watson2:54 pm 19 Jun 13

Our part of Casey didn’t get NBN yet. We do have fibre to the home. Not sure if that’s worse, but I am not very happy about the limited choice of ISPs compared to NBN.

watto232:16 pm 19 Jun 13

peebus said :

Southside anyone? You can all moan and complain but most of the Southside isn’t even getting a whiff of it for another 3 years.

Not quite true. Farrer, Greenway, Isaacs, Kambah, Mawson, O’malley, Oxley, Pearce, Torrens, Wanniassa are scheduled to start in July. albeit this will be a parcel of work and will start in one suburb and work its way through those suburbs.

Rest of Tuggeranong due to start in May next year and South Canberra in December, with Weston Creek and Northen Woden following in 2015. There are always going to be people who can get it first. Even under the coalition plan, some people will get it first and others will get good speeds and others will not. At least the NBN is fairly equal when it comes to service standards.

So probably 2.5-3 years for those in the suburbs of Chapman, Chifley, Curtin, Deakin, Duffy, Fisher, Garran, Holder, Hughes, Lyons, Phillip, Rivett, Stirling, Waramanga, Weston, Yarralumla, although the new apartments in Lyon should have it installed.
Thats the worst case for Canberra. Assuming the contracts are locked in, and the rollout has progressed too far for the coalition to stuff it up.

funny thing is the polls generally show this is the only policy labor has that is popular among all voters. If the Coalition embraced this policy and put political spin on managing financially better, Labor would probably lose even more seats at the next election.

peebus1:18 pm 19 Jun 13

Southside anyone? You can all moan and complain but most of the Southside isn’t even getting a whiff of it for another 3 years.

Gungahlin Al12:58 pm 19 Jun 13

Chop71 said :

promises, promises….. just deliver it will you

Have you looked at the maps Chop? They ARE delivering it – in spades.

arescarti42 said :

Seems like an odd choice to me.

I would’ve thought those areas would be pretty well serviced already by ADSL2+ from the Belconnen exchange.

Surely the people out in the new suburbs of West Belconnen on RIMs miles from the exchange should get it first.

The initial choice to start in Gungahlin as a Stage 2 Pilot Site was driven by need, as a result of many years of lobbying by people both before and during my time with GCC. But since they started, it has been entirely logistics of the engineering that has driven their roll-out – not whether any suburb is more “deserving” than others.

Just be satisfied that – irrespective of the election outcome – most of Canberra will be locked into contracts. It’s just a crying shame that other parts of Australia will probably miss out, and instead be saddled with a “solution” that was reported just yesterday will probably max out in just four years.

Gungahlin Al12:49 pm 19 Jun 13

montana said :

how about concentrate on getting all of Gungahlin area NBN first?

im still waiting? (Franklin)

The build is already done in Franklin. So you can either get it now by just calling your chosen ISP and asking them, or you’re in the northern part of Franklin that has had fibre built-in from day 1 and available via Transact.

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