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

I would love to defer to the good senator’s technical knowledge on this but perhaps I might defer not just to Hugh Bradlow but to an Optus official, Mr Maha Krishnapillai, who stated:

We hope that we can now move beyond the broadband debate and get on with the job of building a world class broadband network.

I specifically draw your attention to another statement by Mr Krishnapillai, who said:

... fibre is indisputably the best way to deliver high-speed broadband for the long term.

The experts go on and on. Chris Chapman, chair of ACMA, said:

It’s a proposition I don’t agree with. I think they’re highly complementary and people who make those statements are being grossly simplistic and have no feel for the physics that underline the different architectures of both.

We have also seen that one of the inventors of the internet, Mr Vint Cerf, has described Australia’s NBN as a ‘stunning’ investment and he stated, ‘I continue to feel a great deal of envy because the US are broadband— (Time expired)