Mr. T.J. Malone:

It may even be four. We look at having 154,000 under construction at this point in time, of the 550,000-odd premises that are now in the intervention area, which has increased from 537,000 in the initial signing of the contract. By the end of this year, which is the key statistic to which we are working, 40% of the entire national broadband plan will be under construction. We will then build on that incrementally each year thereafter with a view to putting it in and finishing this out by the end of 2026 or year 7. Those are the key milestones towards which we are working.

By the end of this year, approximately 70% of the survey and design work will be completed. We need to get a balance with surveys and designs in order that we do not get too far ahead. That might sound foolish, but if one can imagine us getting two or three years ahead of ourselves on the ground when we are surveying and designing, the designs become stale and things change on the ground within that period of time. We need that balance of being far enough ahead that if we get acceleration, we are far enough ahead, but that we do not go stale on our designs.