Vodafone Australia chief Bill Morrow poached by Malcolm Turnbull to oversee NBN rollout Vodafone chief Bill Morrow, Source: News Limited VODAFONE Australia chief Bill Morrow is walking away from his reform plan for the ailing telco just two years into the job. Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has poached him to oversee the rollout of the Abbott Government's scaled-back National Broadband Network. NBN Co executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski announced Mr Morrow would join the company next year, replacing Mike Quigley, who announced his departure in July. Mr Morrow said he was leaving Vodafone in a position to continue improving. He said the opportunity to leave a legacy through the NBN was alluring. Vodafone is expected to name a new chief early next year. The company says it is sticking to Mr Morrow's plan to win back consumers. A Californian, Mr Morrow was brought in by Vodafone in March last year to fix the company's battered reputation and halt a dramatic slide of customers following a series of system meltdowns in 2010. Despite a rapid shake-up that has pleased some analysts, the telco is still struggling to keep customers. It lost about 600,000 in the three months to September. In the past two years, Vodafone has lost about 1.2 million customers while market leader Telstra has picked up 2.9 million. But Vodafone Hutchison Australia chairman Canning Fok said Mr Morrow had succeeded in turning around the performance of the troubled telco since his appointment. "Under Bill's leadership, the Vodafone team has made significant inroads in the delivery of the turnaround strategy and we are confident he is leaving the business well placed to see out the final phase of its recovery," Mr Fok said. Mr Morrow, like Mr Quigley, will be based in Sydney despite the NBN being Melbourne based. Under Mr Morrow NBN will adopt the government's fibre-to-the-node plan, which replaces Labor's fibre-to-the-premises model. The appointment yesterday came as the Federal Government released the results of a review into the network. It revealed costs had blown out $11.5 billion beyond the Coalition's original forecast for scaled-back plan, to $41 billion.