The NBN Co has announced that it is on schedule to connect the 286,000 premises passed by the company, by June 30 of next year. At present, the company has hooked up over 25,000 premises to the national project, with 600 on fixed wireless, 17,000 on the interim satellite service, and 6400 connected to fibre.
Jim Hassell, the head of NBN’s product development and sales, presented to the Senate Estimates committee yesterday the numbers. Out of the 17,000 on the satellite services, 9000 were former customers of the Australian Broadband Guarantee, while 8000 were said to be new customers. ABG initially offered internet on satellite to clients regardless of their location. The government initiative ended June 30 of last year after delivering broadband access to remote regions across the country.
Senator Stephen Conroy who is also the broadband minister said that the NBN Co was already on track to hit the overall 785,000 target they announced earlier this year. For 2012, the company is planning to connect 54,300 premises.
According to Hassell, customer take-up of the broadband services have differed from initial forecasts with over 44% opting for the 100/40 mbps. NBN Co had only expected 18% consumer take-up on the project’s highest speed offerings.
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