Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. In the minister’s media release of 11 February titled ‘Minister discusses CDMA shutdown with stakeholders and Telstra’, he said:

If I am satisfied that the identified issues have been rectified, the network could be switched off by 28 April 2008.

Given the vital importance of this issue to rural and regional Australia, would the minister inform the Senate what those identified issues are and also what criteria he will use to determine whether those issues have been satisfactorily rectified?