The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network across Australia has revealed the extent to which the black summer bushfires of 2019-2020 impacted its network.
Responding to Senate Estimates Question on Notice, NBN said it had four force majeure events from November onwards as a result of bushfire, with 332 outages hitting 53,418 services. Due to it having 6.74 million active premises on its network as of January, the company said the overall impact affected 1% of its network.