Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Before Senator Conroy embarked on his fibre-only fantasy, he failed to look around the world at what the broadband trends were. He completely ignored the cost savings that were available from appropriately using existing infrastructure. They missed the tech trend for data over cable. They completely ignored the US, the world's biggest cable broadband market, which boasts more than 50 million subscribers and a growth rate that saw one million new subscriptions in just the first quarter of 2015. On this side, our plan is technology-agnostic.

Senator Conroy, we know, is not looking in this area in terms of technology; he is looking at this area in terms of theology. Senator Conroy has a belief system and, if he is the high priest of that belief system, I am worried. (Time expired)