The Federal Government has officially unveiled that Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Fibre Deployment) Bill 2010 in the Parliament, the main aim of which is to make sure that all the new homes which are built at Greenfield estates are inclusive of the infrastructure which is capable of connecting to the National Broadband Network.

With the Bill, there would be an insertion of a new Part 20A into the Telecommunications Act 1997, that would allow the Communications Minister to particularly specify the type of real estate establishments that would require that any of the fixed lines installed have to be optical fibre and any passive infrastructure installed, on the other hand, is fibre-ready.

"The legislation will allow the targeting of those developments where it is practicable to have fibre now, while ensuring others are ready to have fibre installed as soon as it is possible and cost-effective in the future", shared the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE).

The Bill also looks to amend that various industry codes and standard processes which come under Part six of the Act, in order to make it easier to come up with new codes and standards with regards to the optical fibre infrastructure and the services where this would be required.

As has been shared by the DBCDE, installation of fibre-to-the-premises, or FTTP, infrastructure in new establishments would effectively complement the National Broadband Network, or NBN, roll out.