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

I thank Senator Gallagher for the question. It is important to recognise with surveys such as the Akamai speed survey that whilst the NBN is available to 50 per cent of the nation, a majority of the nation are still on the pre-NBN network. So the Akamai survey, as a matter of logic and facts, primarily measures the pre-NBN network. What that means is the Akamai survey is really helping to make the case for our approach to see the NBN rolled out six to eight years sooner than would have been the case under those opposite, and at $30 billion less cost.