Australia's national broadband provider announced Tuesday that a handful of Newcastle and Hunter suburbs were among its latest swathe of neighbourhoods to become serviced by faster fibre to the premises internet connection in place of the existing fibre to the node.
NBN Co has released its latest list of suburbs where works to extend fibre connections are to take place over the next 12 to 18 months, and includes Aberglasslyn, Cooks Hill, Corlette, Eleebana, Hamilton South, and Lambton, among a host of other locations around the state.
In total, NBN Co expects to connect 300,000 homes and businesses, and says local residents should be able to access faster internet speeds - as much as 1 Gbps - by the end of 2023.
"To trigger a full fibre upgrade, eligible customers will need to place an order with a participating retailer for a plan based on an eligible wholesale speed tier," NBN Co said in a statement Tuesday, adding that it was on track to enable up to eight million premises across Australia to access wholesale download speeds of 500 Mbps to close to 1 Gbps, by the end of next year.
Upgrades will also be made in suburbs across the ACT, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
Readers can find out if their premises may be eligible here.
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