National Broadband Network misses June 30 rollout target, but meets revised goal after delays push project back Workers installing the National Broadband Network (NBN). Photo: Tracee Lea Source: News Limited THE National Broadband Network has failed to meet its June 30 target but has matched a revised goal set after delays struck the high-speed internet project earlier this year. In a major announcement on progress of the embattled $40 billion infrastructure project, NBN Co today said 207,500 premises had been passed at the end of the financial year. The figure is in the range of 190,000 to 220,000 predicted in March after NBN Co announced delays by some of its contractors, blamed on a lack of workers. But the total passed was still well below the 341,000 premises promised in the latest 2012-2015 version of the NBN corporate plan, now expected to arrive three months later. NBN also said there had been a more than fourfold increase in the total number of end users over the past 12 months and a sevenfold increase in fibre users. The total families and businesses with NBN services was now 70,100. NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley said the results showed NBN Co and its partners had the capacity to overcome challenges inherent in a major project. "These results are pleasing because they demonstrate that the steps we put in place in March to accelerate the rollout have been successful," he said. They provide us with confidence that NBN Co is on track to deliver fast, reliable and affordable broadband to every family and business in Australia over the remaining eight years of this decade-long build.