NBN Co boss Bill Morrow has announced he will step down by the end of 2018, after four years spent leading the controversial roll-out of the National Broadband Network (NBN).
"I believe that as the company prepares to confront the new challenges ahead, this is the right time to hand over the reins for the next phase of this incredible project and for me to plan for the next step in my career," he said in a statement.
The Turnbull government released a statement thanking Mr Morrow for his service.
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"Under Mr Morrow’s guidance, the National Broadband Network has met all of its operational and financial targets," communications minister Mitch Fifield wrote in a statement.
"When Mr Morrow commenced in the role, the NBN was available to around 300,000 premises."
The rollout of the NBN has been controversial.
When the Coalition won government under Tony Abbott, it moved to replace Labor's original NBN plan with a mix of fibre-to-the-home and fibre connections to "nodes" on street corners to save billions on the rollout.
But consumers have complained about delayed connections and slow download speeds. Some companies have paid compensation after delivering slower speeds than promised.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Mr Morrow, who he personally appointed in 2014, had done an "amazing job" after inheriting Labor's "train wreck" NBN policy.
Mr Turnbull said it was the "biggest turnaround, I would think, in Australian history", speaking with reporters in Queensland.
- with AAP
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