NBN PLAN FOR LYONS

MORE homes and businesses in Lyons are a step closer to getting the National Broadband Network with work scheduled to start on another round of network connections in the next few months.

The NBN’s latest quarterly rollout plan, released yesterday, details when and where fixed-line and fixed-wireless network installations will start across the electorate.

Work to connect Coles Bay and Coles Bay East to the NBN via fixed wireless network will start in the next couple of months providing the opportunity for 600 premises to be connected to NBN.

Other areas in Lyons where hook-up to NBN via wireless network will start in the third quarter of this year include Kempton, Hawfield, Mangalore, Mount Faulkner and Quoin Hill; Collinsvale, Mount Rivulet, Tea Tree South, Dromedary North and Bagdad.

Work to connect Beaconsfield via fixed wireless network will start at the end of this year providing access to NBN for 200 premises.

Fixed line network construction will start also at Carlton, Dodges Ferry, Lewisham and Primrose Sands; Evandale and Western Junction at the end of this year.

In the first half of the New Year, work will commence on connecting a number of areas to NBN via both fixed line and wireless network.

Fixed line connections will include at Bicheno; Blackwall, Gravelly Beach, Lanena and Swan Point; Bridgewater, Brighton, Gagebrook, Herdsman’s Cove, Honeywood, Old Beach and Pontville; Campbell Town; Grindewald and Legana, Lawitta and New Norfolk; Longford; Orford, Spring Beach and Triabunna; Westbury.

Fixed wireless connections to start in the first half of next year include Bothwell, Lake Sorell, Oatlands and Parattah; Erriba, Paradise, Railton, Sheffield, Sheffield East, Sunnyside South and Wilmot and Port Arthur and Murdunna East.

After June next year work will start on installing fixed line connections at Railton and Sheffield; Scamander and Swansea; Devon Hills and Perth; Hawley Beach, Port Sorell and Shearwater; Beaconsfield and Beauty Point.

Federal Lyons MP Eric Hutchinson said that the NBN would deliver Internet access that is fast, reliable and affordable.

“Better broadband will transform the way homes and businesses communicate, do business and access online service,’’ he said.

The latest work will see an extra 840,000 premises in Lyons given the option of connecting to the NBN by fixed line network and a further 8350 connecting using fixed wireless network.
Federal Lyons MHR Eric Hutchinson