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

It took three full years, from July 2010 until June 2013, for the NBN to cover just 100,000 premises. In fibre-to-the-node areas this milestone was achieved in just four months. Similarly, it took Labor's NBN rollout two years and seven months to get 10,000 users connected, from July 2010 to February 2013. Under our faster fibre-to-the-node rollout it has taken just four months. I think these numbers speak for themselves. Under Labor, their rollout fundamentally consisted of pins on coloured maps. There were a lot of very pretty maps on websites; the only problem was that they bore absolutely no relation to reality when it came to the progress of the rollout. Indeed, it has been said unkindly that FTTP under Labor stood for 'fibre to the press release'.