[Paul Haese]

Here is an amusing tale of how the NBN is being "efficiently" rolled out.

In 2014 I saw NBN techs walking around the area and doing inspections of the Telstra pits. I spoke with one of them at length about build time etc and he seemed to think it would be 12-18 months from time of commencement to accessing the NBN. About 3 months later I noted that NBN had commenced in our area. In fact by the end of that year nodes started appearing. By the end of 2015 all work had ceased and nodes were installed. One is just a mere 150 metres from our home. I made my first enquiry after the map showed the NBN was available. I was promptly told it was not available but I said the map showed that it was. We were even contacted by TPG to say we had NBN available.

I rang and had a conversation with an NBN consultant and he said NBN should be completed by the end of 2016 and after I said that the NBN map was actually misleading and deceptive, it went back to being build commenced and it has stayed that way since.

Well it is now approaching the end of 2017 and surprise, surprise still no NBN and when you look on the map it does not even have a date at which the NBN should be completed. I think we have fallen down an NBN black hole and never going to get it completed. Even contacting NBN just fails to get a response now. No wonder they have so many complaints. How about fully completing an area before moving on to the next?

Amusingly, by remote site has had NBN fixed wifi for 2 years. I might have to move down there.