CEO of NBN Co, Mike Quigley announced the delay at a conference this afternoon.
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NBN Co has announced a three month delay in the rollout of fibre optic cable.
In a press conference this afternoon NBN CEO Mike Quigley explained that its construction partners had not been "mobilising boots on the ground at a fast enough local level to meet their own forecasts".
Mr Quigley said the three month delay was a "short term issue" and would not affect the long term delivery of the NBN. The completion forecast of June 2021 is still on target, he said. He also said the delay would not affect revenue at this point.
When asked whether the delay brought the NBN dangerously close to the September election, and if it was concerned about completing the rollout in time for what is looking like an inevitable Liberal victory, Mr Quigley told news.com.au that it could only keep plugging away.
"To be honest, we just have a job to do which is given to us by the government and we are executing on that job, he said."
"We're trying to make sure we don't get distracted by anything else that is going on.
"We are going to keep looking ahead until the government instructs us to do otherwise."
The NBN announced it has taken over the Northern Territory rollout directly to ensure a rapid rollout of fibre to premises, and allow Syntheo to focus on rollouts in WA and SA.
The NT takeover will see the creation of 200 jobs in the Northern Territory during the peak of the rolluot, Mr Quigley said.
The press conference took place just half an hour before the leadership spill, leading some to question whether it was a cynically motivated move to bury the bad news.
But Mr Quigley denied this, saying though it was “reasonable” for people to be cynical, the answer was “no”.
“We had a board meeting scheduled today,” he said. “The board had to approve the forecasting. It’s a major event.”
“I notice the press was in fact full of predictions of this release being imminent.
“I can assure you the events taken place today have no connection to the process we were going through at all. I think there is enough rumour out there in the media there shouldn't have been any surprise that we came out to day with the announcement.”
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