Gigabit per second speeds aren't needed yet, NBN Co boss Bill Morrow says

By Lucy Battersby
Updated March 1 2017 - 12:08am, first published 12:04am
NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow. Photo: Daniel Munoz
NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow. Photo: Daniel Munoz
About four million premises, around 30 per cent, are expected to be connected to NBN Co's network through fibre-to-the-node [FTTN], which uses their existing copper telephone wire for several hundred metres.   Photo: Glenn Hunt
About four million premises, around 30 per cent, are expected to be connected to NBN Co's network through fibre-to-the-node [FTTN], which uses their existing copper telephone wire for several hundred metres. Photo: Glenn Hunt

Households with a fibre-to-the-node connection - the slowest of the NBN Co's fixed technologies - will get an upgrade when augmented reality, virtual reality and ultra high definition internet television become mainstream, the company's chief executive told a Senate committee on Tuesday night.

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