NBN rollout plan now plotted on Google Maps

"When is the NBN coming to my area?" is by far the most frequent question asked by callers to our national call centre.

It's also a question that NBN Co staff have been asked at barbeques "once or twice"!

Earlier this month, NBN Co blog reader Dodgy_Coder had a great idea: "What would be great is some sort of web app where I type in my postcode and I get an estimate of how long its going to be before the NBN is available in my area."

Little did "Dodgy" know, we've been hard at work building just that!

We're excited to be releasing it today -- an interactive map showing the over 750,000 homes where work has commenced or work is planned to commence over the next twelve months across Australia, complete with address search.

As you would expect, many areas on the map will still not appear on the rollout plan, as the map only shows areas that NBN Co has announced so far, showing sites where the NBN is active, where work is underway or is planned to commence by the end of the year

We plan to add many, many more communities when we announce our rollout plans for the next three years, so when that happens the map will show a lot more coverage than it does now.

Our 12-month rollout plan is updated every quarter and the three-year plan once a year.

The interactive map will be updated every month with both high-level and detailed maps immediately after any new areas of the rollout plan are announced, so it's the best place to keep checking to see new rollout areas as we build out the national network.

You'll notice that in some suburbs, the edges of the coverage overlay are fuzzy. You may also notice that the overlay disappears as you zoom into the map.

That's deliberate -- it means that in that area, we have announced general plans but the detailed planning isn't finished.

When it is done, we will be able to determine specifically where the area of coverage will begin and end, and we'll update the map with clearly-marked edges.

The key underneath the map (and pictured above) explains what the colours mean.

For example, a dark purple area with a clearly marked border shows that high speed broadband and telephone services are now available on the NBN fibre network in that area.

A dark orange area with a clearly defined edge means a fibre area where work has commenced but the network isn't yet operating.

A light purple area shows that high speed broadband services are now available over the NBN fixed wireless network in that area.

Likewise, a light orange area means an area of planned coverage for NBN fixed wireless.

If the area is hot pink, that means work in that area is planned to commence within 12 months.

As you zoom into areas where detailed maps have not yet been released, the pink will disappear because detailed planning hasn't yet been completed, and therefore detailed rollout information can't be displayed.

New estates are marked with green and brown pins, meaning "NBN service available" and "work commenced, but services not yet available", respectively.

View the rollout map here.