Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Mental Health) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. I refer to the now Prime Minister's announcement on 14 December 2014 that the taxpayer would 'take progressive ownership of the Optus HFC cable network and use this infrastructure in the NBN rollout'. Given that Optus planned to mothball its old HFC network years ago and this government did not finalise the new Optus deal until December last year, is the Optus HFC network fit for purpose for the NBN rollout?