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I'm with Dan Fleming, the head of construction at NBN Co. It's a big day for Canberra because
NBN Co will be presenting to the Gungahlin Community Council Meeting tonight. Dan, tell
us what you're going to be saying at the meeting.
We're going to come and explain what really the NBN rollout for the next 12 months means
for the residents of the Gungahlin community. We announced in October a rolling 12 month
plan, and we'll explain really what that means.
It's great news because of course in October we heard that there were some 20,800 people
that would be serviced by the NBN started in that 12 month plan, so can you just give
us a bit more idea of timing and what's actually going on out there at the moment.
Yep, sure. We announced that 20,800 premises would be commenced within the next 12 months,
now we do that in a very controlled way, in a series of modules, and we've agreed with
the contractors that will be doing the work when they'll be doing those modules. So what
it means is that when we start a module, it takes about 12 months to start and complete
that module and start connecting customers.
So if we start 20,800 premises in the next 12 months, in the subsequent 12 months we
should finish those 20,800.
Well that's pretty exciting because I know that's pretty much all of Gungahlin. So thanks
for being here. I know it'll be an interesting meeting. Hopefully we'll get a great turn
out and the interest in Canberra just keeps growing with the rollout of the NBN, so thanks.
You're very welcome.