Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that over 1 million premises currently scheduled to get fibre to the premises (FttP) in the next three years on the National Broadband Network (NBN) will miss out under the Coalition's alternative proposal.

NBN Co has close to 5 million premises in its sights for construction of the NBN out to mid-2016 under the updated three-year rollout plan. This includes 1.3 million new premises in 190 different towns and suburbs that are now expected to have construction commenced or completed by June 2016.

Conroy announced the updated rollout plan at an event in Blacktown, Western Sydney, on Sunday. The event was said to mark the first NBN services being activated in Sydney; however, the service has already been activated in new housing estates in parts of Western Sydney already. Sunday's announcement was the first connection of the service to existing, or "brownfields", premises.

Conroy warned that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott would "cancel" the construction of the NBN to these new premises should he win the September federal election.

"Tony Abbott's plan is to leave 9 million Australian homes disconnected from Labor's NBN, and this is going to create a digital divide across suburbs, across cities, and across all of Australia," he said. "You will have Labor's NBN with gigabyte [sic] capacity, and Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott's NBN delivering you a second-rate broadband network, but still spending AU$20 billion, and still borrowing nearly AU$30 billion for a second-rate network."

The opposition's NBN policy, released last month, would see 22 percent of Australian premises (2.8 million) continue to get fibre to the premises, while 71 percent will get fibre to the node (FttN) and will have to continue to use the existing copper line to their premises. NBN Co would remain the wholesale provider of services on that network, but users would not be able to get the 100Mbps speeds that the full fibre service offers.

While Turnbull has said that he will honour existing contracts that are in place with NBN Co, Conroy's statements on Sunday suggest that Turnbull's plan would not include all of the premises currently scheduled for construction by 2016.

"So these 1.3 million homes that will be built in 2015 to 2016, this will only happen if a Labor government is re-elected in September."

In the Coalition's background document, 2.8 million premises will continue to receive fibre to the premises, but the vast majority of these (1.6 million) will be new housing estates. Of the 1.2 million remaining, the policy only budgets for 565,000 existing premises, scheduled to be completed by June 2014, to continue getting the full fibre services — far fewer than what it has been suggested NBN Co is currently contracted for.

Turnbull's office had not responded to a request for comment at the time of writing.

The use of the term "construction commenced or completed" in describing areas set to get the NBN has been labelled as misleading by Turnbull . The term indicates construction that is either in planning, underway, or completed. An area specified to be in the three-year rollout plan could be waiting 18 months from the time NBN Co indicates that construction has commenced before they are able to connect to the NBN.

For example, NBN Co has said that construction had commenced or been completed for 784,592 premises at the end of December 2012; however, the company's June 30, 2013, target for the number of premises that will actually be able to connect to the fibre service will be between 200,000 and 220,000, Conroy said on Sunday.

NBN Co has set up a site for people to check to see whether they are included in the three-year rollout plan.

The new suburbs include:

New South Wales

Albion Park

Bankstown

Barham-Koondrook

Batemans Bay

Batlow

Bawley Point

Bellingen

Belmont

Bermagui

Berowra

Berridale

Bombala

Bondi

Branxton-Greta

Bulahdelah

Canowindra

Cessnock-Bellbird

Clarence Town

Como

Cooma

Coraki

Culcairn

Deniliquin

Dorrigo

Dungog

Edensor Park

Evans Head

Finley

Frenchs Forest

Gilgandra

Gunnedah

Hornsby

Howlong

Jindabyne

Kellyville

Kempsey

Kooringal

Macksville

Maclean

Manilla

Mona Vale

Moruya

Moss Vale

Murrurundi

Murwillumbah

Narooma

North Parramatta

Petersham

Quirindi

Ramsgate

Raymond Terrace

Shoalhaven Heads

Singleton

South West Rocks

Sydney

Springwood

Tocumwal

Tumbarumba

Tumut

Tuross Heads

Ulladulla

Uralla

Urunga

Walcha

Williamtown

Woodburn

Yamba

Queensland

Agnes Water

Airlie Beach

Albany Creek

Ayr

Babinda

Bells Bridge

Booral

Bowen

Boyne Island

Burleigh Heads

Burrum Heads

Cardwell

Childers

Collinsville

Cooktown

Coorparoo

Crows Nest

Gympie

Herberton

Highfields

Howard

Innisfail

Lammermoor

Landsborough

Malanda

Maleny

Maryborough

Mission Beach

Mossman

Murgon

Oakey

Proserpine

Rainbow Beach

Ravenshoe

Redland Bay

Sherwood

Sunshine Coast Caloundra

Sunshine Coast Noosa

Tin Can Bay

Toorbul

Toowong

Tully

Wondai

Wonga Beach

Woodford

Woodgate

Victoria

Anglesea

Ballan

Beaufort

Beechworth

Castlemaine

Chiltern

Clunes

Coburg

Craigieburn

Daylesford

Dimboola

Elmore

Garfield

Glen Iris

Heathcote

Heidelberg

Heyfield

Kooyong

Kyneton

Lang Lang

Maldon

Mirboo

North Moreland

Nathalia Newport

North Melbourne

Numurkah

Oakleigh

Point Cook

Portarlington

Romsey

Rushworth

Rye

Shoreham

Sunbury

Tallangatta

Thomastown

Trentham

Warburton

Winchelsea

Woori Yallock

South Australia

Barmera

Beachport

Berri

Brighton

Ceduna

Glenunga

Lyndoch

Millicent

Minlaton

Mount Gambier

Naracoorte

Penola

Port Lincoln

Renmark

Robe

Salisbury

Stansbury

Tumby Bay

Waikerie

Yorketown

Western Australia

Augusta

Broome

Cowaramup

Derby

Dunsborough

Ellenbrook

Esperance

Glenfield

Jandakot

South Margaret River

Norseman

Quinns Rocks

Spearwood

Wickham

York

The NBN rollout in Tasmania and the Northern Territory is scheduled to be completed in 2015, so no new suburbs were announced.