Which ‘fibrehood’ is coming to Newcastle first?
Britelink has broken ground, intending to lay fibre optic cable in around five weeks.
Britelink has broken ground on a project to propel Newcastle into an age of faster Internet.
The company, 50 per cent owned and effectively contracting for Vumatel, estimates it will take five weeks to connect 800 homes to a fibre optic network – opening the door for high-speed browsing.
Read more about the project and the benefits of fibre in this week’s edition of the Newcastle Advertiser.
Britelink has also released a map of so-called fibrehoods, highlighting which parts of Newcastle will be linked to the fibre optic network and potentially benefit from the new infrastructure.
See the map below:
Fibrehood 1: Drakensberg Drive, Hibiscus Avenue, Erica Drive, Victoria Road and Nagtegaal Street (pink on the map)
Fibrehood 2: Victoria Road, Allen Street, Impala Drive, Paddock Drive, Percy Riley Road, Coronation Road, Amethyst Drive, Garnet Avenue, Aquamarine Drive and upper HJ van Eck Drive (pink)
Fibrehood 3: Renoster Avenue, Krokodil Avenue, Drakensberg Drive, Rooikat Avenue, Olifant Crescent, Leopard Avenue, Andries Pretorius Avenue, Hans van Rensburg Avenue, Tielman Roos Avenue, Creswell Avenue, Tommy Boydell Avenue, Allen Street and lower HJ van Eck Drive (white)
Fibrehood 4: Allen Street, Drakensberg Drive, Creswell Avenue, Tielman Roos Avenue, FW Beyers Avenue, DF Malan Avenue, Andries Pretorius Avenue, Louis Trichard Avenue, Leopard Avenue, Renoster Avenue, Tugela Avenue, Kameelperd Avenue, Rooikat Avenue, Buffel Avenue, Koggelmander Avenue and lower HJ van Eck Avenue (white)
Fibrehood 5: Finnemore Street, Jenkyn Street, St Dominic Street, Kirkland Street, Centre Street, Scott Street, Bird Street, Hospital Street, Crawford Street, Voortrekker Street, Allen Street and Hardwick Street (green)
Fibrehood 6: Draper Street, Hathorn Street, Dixon Street, St Thomas Street, Centre Street, Carrington Road, Boundary Road, Osborne Road, Panorama Drive (blue)
More information on this project is expected in the weeks to come.
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