Senate debates
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Questions without Notice
Telecommunications
2:30 pm
Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source
As I say, using our technology-agnostic multitechnology mix allows us to give fast broadband to Australians sooner by utilising existing and emerging technologies. Our approach also allows NBN Co to refresh and augment the network and also to be in a position where it can change and upgrade the network as it needs to instead of being shackled by one technology. That is why we now have nearly two-thirds of the country with the NBN in design or construction or able to order an NBN service.
Under the approach of our predecessors, Australians would have been waiting a lot longer for the NBN and paying a lot more for it. Under this government, they will get it sooner and at a lower cost. You only really get the full economic benefit if the whole nation has the NBN. We want the whole nation to have the NBN as soon as possible. Under us, they will.
Charlie Schroeder
Posted on 15 Sep 2016 11:14 am
As one who is connected when it works, to the Sky Muster satellite NBN disservice. I and many others [look on social media and ask the Minister for the letters and telephone communucations he has received] have been trying to work round the many outages and the problems with the modems supplied.
There was another outage this morning, and if trying to discover why the modem won't work and spending hours with the ISP of choice who supplies the path from NBN co. Having nothing but phone connection is not helpful.
I believe that it is possibly the speed with which the NBN co is trying to run out the NBN that is part of the problem. More places are physically installed, but not connected.