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New Chorus boss JB Rousselot: Planning to walk the Milford Track over the summer break. Photo / Supplied
New Chorus boss JB Rousselot: Planning to walk the Milford Track over the summer break. Photo / Supplied France-born Jean Baptiste or JB Rousselot has spent much of his career in Australia, with executive roles at Telstra and the National Broadband Network (NBN). He arrived in New Zealand just over a year ago to take the reins at Chorus. His first 12 months turned out to be far more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. The Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) operator saw record use of its fibre network, and a record share price, as the pandemic drove a work-from-home boom.
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The Morrison Government has declared “mission accomplished” on the National Broadband Network (NBN), with Minister for communications, cyber safety and the arts Paul Fletcher claiming the NBN is
“built and fully operational”.
However, The SMH reports that 35,000 premises are still waiting to be connected to the NBN.
ItNews also reports that 238,000 premises unable to get 25Mbps speeds – the benchmark speed deemed to represent “broadband” in Australia.
For mine, the NBN won’t be “mission accomplished” until it provides speeds near the top of global rankings. At present, Australia’s fixed broadband is ranked an abysmal 60th in the world according to Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index:
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After nine years and a very long and painful rollout process, Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has been declared complete.
Minister for Communications, Paul Fletcher, announced in a media release today that the NBN should be treated as ‘built and fully operational’. This is despite the fact that the government is now working to upgrade the NBN network to full fibre by 2023.
Federal Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has called the National Broadband Network built and operational despite 35,000 households waiting for a connection.
Despite thousands of unconnected homes, Mr Fletcher said the government s $57billion project is in good stead to improve the service to existing customers.
Mr Fletcher said the number of homes who aren t on the network has dropped dramatically in the last quarter, leaving him confident of the success of the network into the future. In my view the evidence before me shows it is appropriate to make the declaration that the NBN should be treated as built and fully operational, he said, as reported by Sydney Morning Herald.