NBN Co will begin a customer pilot on the cable television infrastructure it acquired from Telstra and Optus, as part of the multi-technology National Broadband Network, in the final quarter of next year, with commercial services to be offered at the beginning of 2016. On Sunday, Telstra signed a new national broadband network deal with the government that it said is worth the same $11 billion as its deal with the previous Labor government, and will see the company progressively sell its copper and HFC network to NBN Co.