Nearly half of Redlands will be able to access high-speed broadband internet next year, thanks to a deal being struck with Telstra and Optus allowing NBN Co to access the pay-TV cable system.
The deal means those close to the pay-TV network will be able to connect to the pay-TV cable, known as Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial, for fast internet, with speeds of up to 200megabits per second.
About 46 per cent of Redland houses are near enough to connect to the HFC network.
Bowman MP Andrew Laming said ports at Telstra exchanges would be freed up for those who could not access the pay-TV network.
Households not in range of the pay-TV Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial cable will have to wait for up to three years for the NBN rollout.
Details of the cable deal would announced on December 14.
Mr Laming said the agreement was "the single most important step on delivering high-speed internet to Redlands".
This week, NBN Co announced 140 suburbs where the network would be rolled out in the next three-year phase.
A small area of streets near Unwin Road at Redland Bay and off Valley Way at Mount Cotton, were included in NBN's latest rollout phase and were expected to get NBN within 18 months.
All other areas of Redlands, which are not near pay-TV cable, will be connected to high-speed broadband within three years, with the details of the plan out next year.
Mr Laming said residents at those addresses could look forward to fibre-to-the-node upgrades in the next three years, with details to be announced in the middle of 2015.
“This week’s Fibre to the Node announcement primarily focussed on areas that can’t access HFC; predominately those in regional centres, along major highways and those along the spine of the fibre network," he said.
“When the Labor Party left office just 1 per cent of Australians had access to the NBN, by the next election the Coalition will raise this number to 40 per cent.”
