National Broadband Network Update No. 1

Welcome to the first edition of Deacons' National Broadband Network Update. The NBN will change the face of Australian telecommunications and will impact businesses far beyond the telecommunications sector. The NBN is a massive project and we propose to issue the NBN Update regularly to give you a concise summary of what is happening.

If you would like to read the NBN story from the beginning, Nick Abrahams' Sydney Morning Herald column on the first three months of NBN progress can be found here – Why the NBN is bigger than Ben Hur. The progress of the NBN since July is set out below:

NBN Co. chair, NBN Co. Board and Tasmanian NBN Co. Chair appointments

• The NBN Co. Executive Chairman and CEO is Mike Quigley, who served as President and COO during his 35 years at Alcatel, mostly overseas. Mr Quigley was involved in building a residential fibre network for AT&T in the US.