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

Those studies demonstrated the benefits. IBM and Access Economics released the study for fibre-to-the-node projects. Despite those opposite trying to claim this was really just a reheating of a previous Access Economics and Telstra study—a quite disgraceful assertion—IBM and Access Economics produced a study which again showed the benefits across the economy of a slower system than we are producing. So there are many studies out there, right across the world. But if we are going to take seriously a claim that we should keep the copper open because some new—(Time expired)