The organisation building the National Broadband Network will restart spending, tenders and recruitment following news of the installation of a Labor minority government.
With the Coalition vowing to scrap the NBN, its architect NBN Co was operating at limited capacity during the election campaign.
Four of the five Green and independent MPs backed Labor yesterday, with Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott saying Labor's broadband policy was critical to their decisions.
NBN Co welcomed Windsor and Oakeshott's announcements.
"NBN Co's management and its 300 employees welcome the clarity that Tuesday's announcements provides in relation to the future of the NBN," a NBN Co spokesman said.
"We will now work to restore deferred processes, including the recruitment of staff.
"NBN Co will meet with its shareholder ministers to discuss future policy directions."
Meanwhile, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will meet with NBN Co in the coming days to "re-design" its rollout timetable in a way that prioritises regional deployment of fibre.
The Prime Minister and key independents yesterday struck a deal that would see regional areas get priority over metropolitan areas for National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre.
Conroy told the ABC's AM program today that the re-jig was "a question of a timetable about where they'll (re)start" rolling out the network.
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