"There will be direct jobs created, as the construction reaches its peak around 400 work teams employing more than 16,000 workers will be installing fibre optic cable to an average of 6000 premises per week."

Communications Minister, senator Stephen Conroy, said the plan covered a total of 139 federal electorates out of 150 across the country, specifically, 67 Labor, 61 Coalition, and six crossbench electorates.

"Ultimately, no one will miss out but, there will be some Australians disappointed they are not included in this three year announcement," Conroy said. "Keep in mind, if elected Tony Abbott will stop the NBN rollout dead in its tracks."

According to NBN Co chief executive, Mike Quigley, complex engineering work was involved in the establishment of the plan, with numerous rollout guidelines, or "principles", outlined which were then formulate, or "sequenced", into a plan using optimisation software. Locations were organised into modules which consist of between 2500 to 3000 premises.

"First we needed to complete the sites we had already announced including our second release sites and what we had announced in our 12-month plan," he said.