Photos: Landcom estate among first to get NBN fibre

By James Hutchinson on Jun 14, 2011 7:02 AM
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Landcom's Ashton Grove estate has been revealed as one of the first greenfields sites to receive an active National Broadband Network service.

Fibre rollout in the estate, located at East Maitland in the NSW Hunter region, had already begun.

NBN Co had previously been tight-lipped about which of the approximately 1,600 applications it had received from housing developers would be first to get fibre infrastructure.

The first active broadband services in new housing estates were to be trialled from August 8.

It was not the first time a Landcom estate had been involved in an NBN-related project.

Last year, the developer's Parkbridge estate in Sydney's west was chosen by the NSW Government for a six-month trial of apps that could take advantage of 100 Mbps speeds.

Parkbridge had been cabled by Opticomm.

"Our Parkbridge estate was selected to test the federal government's National Broadband Network (NBN)," the company said in its 2009/10 annual report.

"It was chosen because it is the one of the few areas in Australia which is already 'NBN ready', thanks to Landcom's foresight in laying optic fibre conduits in the early stages of the development."

(Additional reporting by Ry Crozier)

4 comments in this discussion

"Crikey those trenches look shallow!! Also in my younger years and used to do trenching we were always told that the warning tape should be at LEAST 300mm ABOVE whatever was being laid below it. ..."

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Comments: 4

Rossyduck Jun 14, 2011 9:17 AM	Suspect those photos of pipes were 100mm pipes. You have however picked up on the facilities sharing issue with NBN Co. Unfortunaetly the early monopolist traits are coming through where they do not want to engage with the existing industry (who already have 400000 connections) to coordinate sharing of new facilities (pipe, narrow lead in conduits, communications cabinets), secure in the knowledge that with unlimited tax payer funding and the minister behind them they can buy or bully their way out of trouble. Watch them put companies out of business using those companies own taxes to undercut them ... and this current government supports this wholeheartedly writing it off as collateral damage.
umbria Jun 14, 2011 11:14 AM	Rossyduck, these are greenfields housing estates! Unlike the turf battles of bygone days, this approach of shared trenches is surely the most efficient way forward and shows bottom-line driven cooperation yielding a benefit to all concerned.
anonymous Jun 14, 2011 11:37 AM	@Ross, you refer (yet again) to NBN Co being "monopolist" in regard to your stated 400,000 existing connections, but you don't mention that the owners of some of those connections might also be capable of trying on a bit of biffo re access usage conditions.
realitybites Jun 14, 2011 1:02 PM	Crikey those trenches look shallow!! Also in my younger years and used to do trenching we were always told that the warning tape should be at LEAST 300mm ABOVE whatever was being laid below it. Putting it alongside seems a complete waste of time and effort.