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Following subcontractor Visionstream's sacking of about 60 workers in June, the National Broadband Network has now announced to train as many as 200 workers in Tasmania rollout. And on Monday, NBN CEO Bill Morrow said the company is now striving towards providing the network service to the entire state within June 2018.

"The idea is that our delivery partners like Visionstream will hire these people," Morrow was quoted by ABC as saying . He also said the workers would be trained and given necessary certificates before they start working at the NBN.

In order to enhance the growth, the company will target to hire skilled workers with previous telecommunications experience and might recruit the Visionstream’s sacked employees to the company.

Morrow said most of the employees of Visionstream would be assigned to a new place or task within the NBN domain. "You'll find people that get retrained, that get redeployed with a different sub-contractor, but we need all the good people that we can get,” he added.

He also confirmed the news of connecting the entire state to the service of NBN by June 2018 and said that it would be the first of its kind. The end of the project will be three years after the 2015 date initially promised when the rollout began.

Morrow continued saying that although they would be working hard to complete the task by 2018, several things could go wrong in the process which might cause delay. "We've built in a little bit of buffer on that just in case, to deal with that,” he added. He assured that they would stick to the commitment and leave the rest as it comes because no one has the power to predict what could possible go wrong, reported ABC .

On Saturday, NBN’s AU$800 million deal with Optus, a broadband service in Australia received the green signal from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The company is all set to buy Optus’ broadband network and TV. Gradually, it will also bring HFC network under its possession, with plans to connect 4 million homes and businesses with high speed internet service.

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