In a statement, the company said that the technology had the capacity to deliver faster speeds than the current 100/40Mbps by using the new copper acceleration technology G.fast. NBN Co plans to test this technology before the end of 2018.

The FttC technology was first tested in Victoria back in October last year in Coburg.

At the time, NBN Co said it planned to serve a million premises using FttC.

The terms fibre-to-the-distribution-point and fibre-to-the-curb have been used interchangeably when stories about the NBN have appeared, but there is a difference, as was pointed out to iTWire some time ago by Mark Gregory, associate professor in network engineering at RMIT.

He pointed out in July last year that in the case of FttDP, the length of copper that formed the last bit of the connection was typically less than 40 metres.

In the case of FttC, it was a variation of fibre-to-the-node where fibre was rolled out to within 300 to 400 metres of premises to either a pit or pole, and copper cables used for the lead-in.