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

Senator Birmingham likes to quote selectively. The capacity for someone to compete with NBN Co. in fibre is there now. NBN Co. itself conducted a tender. For people who have not followed this debate it actually had a tender. It had reached the view that it needed to go with one national supplier because of capacity issues. So NBN held a tender because NBN itself does not have the capacity to do these installations. It tendered, and Fujitsu got the contract.

On your specific question, I have no idea what the business models and pricing of all the other companies are. I am not in a position to answer your question, because I do not know what the business models and offers from those other companies are.