Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Can the minister explain how she could have awarded a Broadband Connect Infrastructure Program contract to a company which has no spectrum, has never tested its product in a real-world situation, has no equipment to broadcast fixed wireless and could not confirm the geographic coverage of its own proposed network? Could she also answer the question that I asked previously, which was: when will the contract be signed; and who is doing the laboratory testing, where and under what conditions?