Work to connect the service to 130,000 new homes, farms and businesses is expected to be underway by mid 2016.
About 10,400 of those recipients are in Queensland, covering regional towns near Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gympie and the Sunshine Coast.
It's part of a new rollout plan using a "multi-technology approach", which NBN Co spokesperson Tony Gibbs says will help deliver the NBN as soon as possible.
The NBN will offer a fixed wireless network to rural and regional Australia, providing internet speeds and bandwidth on par with metropolitan areas.
The aim is to better connect residents to services like e-health and distance education, and make it easier to do business.
"All of those things that people struggle with now, they'll be able to do with no trouble under the NBN," NBN Co's Queensland community affairs manager Ryan Williams said.
The rollout plan shows an indicative view of planned construction work, including extra builds in key regions like the New South Wales south coast, Wide Bay Burnet, Loddon Mallee and Wheatbelt.
It's expected 46,000 properties in the Wide Bay Burnett will receive fast broadband by 2016.
More than 300,000 homes, farms and businesses across the country are already connected to the NBN, which will be available to every Australian family and business by 2020.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Eliza Rogers
Quelle/Source: ABC Online, 01.12.2014
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