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

So, of those sampled in the Akamai survey, a minority would be on the NBN.

It is also important to recognise the Akamai survey doesn't measure the technical speed capacities of lines. What it measures are the speeds that people have actually chosen to obtain. I think a number of colleagues would know something in the order of 83 per cent of people who are on the NBN have opted for speed packages of 25 megabits per second or less. Akamai doesn't measure what the particular line is capable of; it measures the package that people have actually chosen to adopt. So to present the Akamai survey as has been done by the other side and to characterise it the way it has been characterised is not an accurate reflection of the capacity of the NBN. As I say, it primarily and overwhelmingly covers the pre-NBN network.