Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I prepared a very good chart, which Senator Abetz happened to have handy—and I can remember writing this myself. It shows that, if you compare the Labor fibre proposal to ours, fibre only has a four-kilometre radius from the exchange whereas with WiMAX you have a 20-kilometre radius from the base station. On speeds, Labor has promised no more than 12 megabits, whereas the government is saying that with our entire broadband solution we are looking at 12 to 50 megabits. We are looking at getting this underway immediately.