TEX Blog

I thought I was having a busy day, seems the nation has been in hyper drive today. With the historic changes at the lodge and the 1st female Prime Minister in power, you'd think that would be enough for 1 day. But wait, there's more! NBN today announced the 21 companies that will be the major providers of the construction phase of the NBN. And the winners are....Baulderstone Pty Ltd; Bovis Lend Lease; Communications & Fibre; Connect X (AbiGroup/UGL Joint Venture); Downer EDI; Ergon Energy; ETSA Utilities; Jemena Asset Management; John Holland / Bilfinger Berger Services; Laing O’Rourke; McConnell Dowell; Monadelphous Inabensa Joint Venture; Powercor Network Services; Service Stream; Silcar; SP AusNet; Telstra; Tenix; Transfield Services; Visionstream Australia; and Western Power.. Between them, they need to rollout 200,000 kilometres of fibre cable to 10million premises in 8 years. That makes 5000 connections and more than 68 kilometers of fibre laid per day, every day, for 8 years ! So I guess this is just the 1st of many more busy days ahead.