Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

We should not be surprised that the previous minister—Senator Conroy, who was not aware that there were tall trees in regional Australia!—also forgot to buy spectrum for about a third of the fixed wireless towers. I am not being too harsh—he just forgot. If you do not have spectrum you cannot transmit a signal. You literally have no means of connecting your customers to the fixed wireless service.

In Western Australia alone, Labor had begun design and planning on 51 fixed wireless towers servicing 16,700 premises in areas where they had absolutely no capacity to connect customers. It is what you would call a shambles. Clearly, the people of Western Australia deserve better.