NBN delay to 250,000 households a 'teething problem', minister says

Mitch Fifield concedes there are issues to work through in early rollout period of any NBN technology, but they are 'very fixable'

The government and Telstra have defended NBN Co's suspension of its rollout of the HFC network. About 250,000 households that were to receive the NBN over the next six months will now have to wait after the company halted the rollout of services through pay TV cables.

The news sparked complaints from Australians who were scheduled to get the new service, and commiserations from people who already had it but weren't that impressed anyway.