NBN rollout starts this month

Homes and business on and around the Peninsula will have access to National Broadband Network fibre services under the NBN Co's first three year fibre rollout plan, according to Member for Robertson Ms Deborah O'Neill.

Under the three year rollout plan, construction of the fibre network in Bensville, Blackwall, Booker Bay, Daleys Point, Empire Bay, Ettalong Beach, Horsfield Bay, Killcare, Killcare Heights, Pearl Beach, Phegans Bay, Pretty Beach, St Huberts Island, Umina Beach, Wagstaffe and Woy Woy will begin progressively between April 1 and June 30.

"The NBN rollout is ramping up and is about to go into high gear and the Central Coast is poised to make the most of it," said Member for Robertson Ms Deborah O'Neill.

"In the next three years, 77,700 homes and businesses locally will be on the way to having access to fast, reliable broadband through the NBN's fibre network."

The NBN will connect 93 per cent of homes and businesses around Australia to high-speed fibre broadband, capable of speeds of up to one gigabit per second.

The other seven per cent will have access to high-speed fixed-wireless or next-generation satellite technologies providing peak speeds of 12 megabits per second.

"The NBN is about more than just faster broadband.

"This is about supporting businesses in Robertson and around Australia to connect to new markets and find new, better ways of doing things to make their businesses more productive and more profitable.

"It's about families in Robertson getting online to access health and aged care services, it's about people who need government services being able to access those online, and it's about our kids getting access to world class education services, for example by being able to take a class at another school via the NBN," Ms O'Neill said.

Media Release, 30 mar 2012 Richard Mehrtens, Office of Deborah O'Neill MP