Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Communications) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister: Last year, the NBN halted its HFC rollout because of ongoing problems. This year it was confirmed the cost of the HFC rollout had increased by another $310 million. Is the Prime Minister still committed to deploying his expensive HFC network to 3.1 million Australian households and small businesses or is he planning to dump parts of his HFC network for a copper rollout instead?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question. I'd just remind the honourable member—she's obviously forgotten what I said when we were last together—that HFC stands for hybrid fibre-coax, and the coaxial cable is made out of copper. I would just make that point to the honourable member for future reference.