BOWMAN MP Andrew Laming has promised high-speed broadband will be rolled out to parts of Redland Bay and Mount Cotton in July.
The rollout start date is a year earlier than a promise Mr Laming made three weeks ago when he said parts of the two suburbs would be connected before July, 2016.
At the beginning of May, he said it was unlikely the rollout in Redland Bay or Mount Cotton would start this year and would not include homes south of Serpentine Creek Road.
At the time, residents were told to expect an announcement in June of a three-year plan giving more certainty until mid 2018.
The latest NBN promise, made on Tuesday, involves the Telstra exchange at 252 Gordon Road, Redland Bay.
Mr Laming said the rollout would start from the exchange and take in 6400 homes in the two suburbs.
He said the connection speeds would be the NBN standard of 25megabits per second at peak times and up to 100 megabits per second off peak.
Mr Laming was unable to provide names of included streets as the rollout would be "very fast" and would be from the exchange to a node or a box, not to a house.
He said average speeds of 91 megabits per second download and 36megabits per second upload were being experienced in some parts of New South Wales, where the NBN was rolled out to street boxes.
"Those speeds would enable a premise to stream up to 18 high-definition Netflix streams simultaneously, or other bandwidth-intensive applications such as online learning and telehealth consultations," he said.
Telstra said not everyone in the two suburbs would get the service.
The Redland Bay exchange provides fixed telephony and fixed broadband services to customers from the Logan River in the south, north to Victoria Point and west to Mount Cotton.
The telco said there were 350 vacant ports at the Redland Bay exchange, and an extra 300 vacant ports for customers served via the street cabinet network.
It said there would be "a number of residents" who are too far from the exchange or street-side cabinet to access an ADSL service.
The exchange has been upgraded since it was built in the mid-1980s, to keep up with technology and meet customer demand.
Victoria Point residents will not be included.
Homes will be connected to the node boxes using Telstra’s existing copper cable.
It is not the first time Redland Bay has been told it would be the next cab off the rank to get connected to the high-seed broadband service.
In May 2013, a three-year NBNCo plan included Redland Bay in the $37.4 billion rollout which started in June that year.
So far, only the large new Unwin Road housing estate in Redland Bay has the network with the rest of the suburb still waiting.
Under federal government policy, new housing estates larger than 100 lots must include high-speed broadband with NBNCo the provider of last resort.
Developers must pay for the pit and pipe but can choose between competing carriers, including NBN Co.
The June 2013 three-year plan showed 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.