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Townsville, not Armidale was set to be the mainland launch site for the National Broadband Network (NBN), but when Tropical Cyclone Yasi hit, Armidale stepped up, according to NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley.
Townsville
(Credit: NBN Co)
Speaking before Senate Estimates last night, Quigley said that the company had not planned which of the first five release sites on the mainland would be finished first. NBN has started construction in Armidale, Townsville, Willunga, Brunswick and Kiama Downs. Until the disastrous Tropical Cyclone Yasi earlier this year, the poster site was set to be Townsville, he said.
"We had five sites ... which were all progressing at different times of the construction. It looked like one or the other of them were going to finish first. Then different events happened. At the time the cyclone took place we thought Townsville would be finished first, that would be the first place we would turn customers on to," he said.
"It turned out, with the cyclone, Armidale was then the most progressed. It became the logical place to connect first customers."
Caption by: Josh Taylor
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