NBN Co boss Mike Quigley says construction on the broadband network will continue to increase. Source: AAP
THE pace of construction on the government's $37.4 billion broadband network will continue to ramp up after exceeding its 2012 year-end rollout target, the federal government says.
The builder of the national broadband network (NBN) has released data that shows fibre cable work had begun or been completed on 784,592 premises by the end of 2012.
This is more than the forecast 758,000 premises, NBN Co boss Mike Quigley says.
"I am pretty pleased with that because it does set us up now pretty well for what we have to do between now and the end of June," Mr Quigley told AAP on Friday.
He said the next big milestone was to have fibre cable running past another 286,000 premises by that date.
That was still an ambitious target and they would have to roll it past more than 6000 premises a day by May/June to hit the mark, he said.
Mr Quigley said figures that show how many premises or lots the cable has passed by would be released soon.
The number of premises passed by fibre cable at September 30, 2012 was 52,014.
Acting federal communications minister Kim Carr said that exceeding the December 2012 target was "just the beginning".
"The ramp up of NBN construction activity will continue in 2013, with more workers hauling fibre, more areas switching on the NBN, and more families and businesses connecting," Senator Carr said in a statement on Friday.
Under Labor's $37.4 billion project, NBN Co is charged with rolling out the high speed broadband fibre optic cable to 93 per cent of homes, schools and businesses by June 2021.
The remaining seven per cent will be covered by fixed wireless and satellite services by 2015.
Opposition communication spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said the figures that mattered with the rollout were the number of premises the fibre cable had passed and where it was connected.
"It is noteworthy that today's announcement does not include updated figures for premises with active connections or premises passed with fibre (these being the only relevant metrics)," Mr Turnbull said on his blog on Friday.
Mr Turnbull said 6358 premises were actively connected to the fibre network at as September 30 and it had passed 52,014 premises, while NBN Co's corporate plan of August 2012 said there would be 54,000 connections to the fibre network at that time.
"By 2021 the same plan forecasts 8.5 million will be connected to the fibre," he said.
"A long way to go!"
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