REDLAND City has missed out again on being included in the next phase of the National Broadband Network rollout, which will start in 140 suburbs next year.
Today's announcement followed last year’s revelation that Redland Bay would be included in the next phase of the $37.4 billion National Broadband Network rollout, which was supposed to start in June this year.
However, so far, only Unwin Road in Redland Bay has the network with the rest of the suburb still waiting to be connected.
A three-year plan of the NBN rollout, released in May last year, showed the current phase of construction would go as far north as Benfer Road at Victoria Point and Double Jump Road. None of that work has started.
The plan also promised NBN rollout on West Mount Cotton Road, some of which has occurred.
Bowman MP Andrew Laming said today's news was about a trial of 1000 "nodes" across the country with four locations in the Queensland electorates of Gympie, Caboolture, Bribie and Bundaberg.
Mr Laming said Redlands would be considered for the fibre-to-the-node rollout early next year, after trial results.
Mr Laming said the completed trial to test the system and call for tenders and construction commencing within 18 months of being elected was "warp speed" compared to Labor’s plan where all but two Redland suburbs had to wait six years until the first dwelling was connected.