NBN delayed again: The Canberra suburbs that won't be connected this year

It doesn’t really come form the exchange. What they are rolling out now is in the street as the line lengths to the home need to be as short as possible.

Now whilst easier to install than fibre to the premises it still requires fibre to be run to the node locations and for new copper to be installed from the node to the existing Telstra copper network.

If you look around you will see new pillars popping up over the places. The old Telstra ones were round, the NBN ones are bigger, oval shaped and have lifting handles on the side. Near that there should be a small cabinet which is where the VDSL2 hardware is located. This is where your ‘line’ ends.

From there it makes its way back to a local exchange then onto either Civic or Queanbeyan exchanges where NBN handsoff your service to your service provider.

That’s not what happened with Transact. Transact was only going to places that had power poles owned by ACTEW. Most of Tuggeranong and Gungahlin didn’t so missed out.

As for NBN it was deployed into th worst place first which was Gungahlin. Whilst parts of Tuggeranong are indeed bad as a whole it was far better than Gungahlin to older copper to exchange whereas Gungahlin was ALL* RIMs which was copper to a street cabinet.

*the Gungahlin town centre had copper to a small exchange mostly for business internet.

That was definately what happened in the south.
Gungahlin area missed out due to underground reticulation.
The plans were already drawn up and approved for most of the southern suburbs when the cash ran out and ACTEW was bought back in to take management of the company again.

Transact never had plans to go to locations with underground power. The whole reason it could rollout was because ACTEW owner the poles. In underground power sites Transact couldn’t use the power ducts due to deportation requirements and Telstra was not obliged to share. Most of southern Tuggeranong, the part being discussed here is underground power.

Transact only got into the underground business in green fields sites, which was later sold to NBN.

Remember the odds and even system we had during the water restrictions? I think it could be adopted for voting. Odd house numbers vote Liberal and even Labour for the pork barrel win!

Canberra including Tuggeranong was high up the priority on the labor rollout. All of Canberra would have had fibre to the home by now under the original plan.

The original plan prioritised Gungahlin and Queanbeyan with the rest to follow right after. But have been delayed a good 4 years now by the Liebrals.

I haven’t seen anything that backs up Labor prioritising Canberra, and the main point I was making was that safe seats tend to be accorded lower priorities than marginals. The Fairfax article I read said that Labor had distributed more pork than the Liberals, and Labor made damn sure that Windsor & Oakshotte’s electorates got the NBN because they held the balance of power. Look over the border at Eden Monaro at all the federal funding they’ve received because they’re a marginal seat. We’d be better off if we elected a member from a different party on a regular basis. Who knows, maybe if Canberra & Fenner were in play, the Libs may not have gone so hard on PS wages.