Ten Gigabit Adelaide Fibre Network

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The City of Adelaide named TPG Telecom its official network provider in December 2017 and subsidised a fibre build for city businesses, who pay nothing for the in-building connection. TPG built, owns and operates the network — unlike Stockholm's Stokab, the council did not keep a passive network to lease to any operator. The rollout finished in October 2020: 82km of fibre to 1,000 buildings across the CBD and North Adelaide, with symmetrical services of up to 10 Gbps.

Live 📅 since 2017

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

Run byTPG Telecom (network), City of Adelaide (programme)

Scale🏘️ District

Cost≈A$15M build budget (project manager's figure)

FundingCity of Adelaide subsidy; TPG Telecom built and owns the network

📊 Impact

1,000 buildings and about 3,500 business premises passed by October 2020; TPG reported several hundred organisations connected at completion. No uptake figure has been published since.

🎓 Lesson

A city can pay for the pipes and still not own them: Adelaide funded the build and left one company to run it and sell over it.

📡 Data & IoT Connectivity & 5G

Sources

↗ City of Adelaide (authority, official project page)Programme description, TPG as 'Official Network Provider', coverage of CBD and North Adelaide, no installation charge to businesses.

↗ iTnews (trade press, contract announcement)6 Dec 2017: TPG selected to build, own and operate the network; council financial support reduces business costs; ~1,000 sites planned; 10 Gbps per customer.

↗ iTnews (trade press, completion)Oct 2020 completion: 1,000 buildings, 82km of fibre, 26,000 splices, 431 joints, eight core sites; 'Several hundred organisations have connected to the network already'.

↗ Council Magazine (trade press)Independent confirmation of the completion figures and the council/TPG roles.

↗ ProcurePM (project manager on the build)States a $15 million budget and describes the build as a collaboration between the City of Adelaide and TPG.

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Compare this project

🇸🇪 Stokab: Stockholm's Municipal Open-Access Dark Fibre Network · Stockholm The direct opposite ownership model: Stokab has leased passive fibre to any operator since 1994; Adelaide handed the network to one company. 🇺🇸 EPB Gig City — Fiber-Optic Smart Grid & Community Broadband · Chattanooga City-owned utility fibre that became a retail ISP, against a council that paid a private telco to be the provider. 🇮🇪 Smart Docklands · Dublin Same year (2017), same district-scale connectivity play, but neutral-host 5G rather than subsidised business fibre.

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🗺️ Your City's Problem Map Is Really a Map of Who Complains 📶 Connectivity & 5G guide 🏙️ Adelaide city profile 📡 Data & IoT projects 📖 LoRaWAN

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Ten Gigabit Adelaide Fibre Network” — Adelaide, Australia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/adelaide-ten-gigabit/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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