Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Grudgingly, the minister found a way to at least sort of answer the question. He said that NBN Co. would provide and lay the fibre, but would recover the costs on a national basis over a longer time horizon. Private providers providing the services would not be able to do that; they would have to recover their costs by charging the developer, which of course would be put into the costs of the land that is sold.