The Government has loudly announced its new National Broadband Network roll-out plan for the next three years.

Not surprisingly all the action is on the coastal fringe, although they have thrown a few crumbs out to Tamworth to placate independent MP Tony Windsor.

So despite the big population and industrialisation jumps projected in this region over the next few years Narrabri is still considered to be in the "There Be Dragons" portion of the map.

So hang on to your carrier pigeons and copper wires, there won't be any optical fibres out this way for a long time.