asked the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in writing, on 25 November 2010:

In respect of the statement by Mr Mike Quigley, Chief Executive Officer, NBN Co Limited that in constructing the National Broadband Network, two-thirds of cabled premises will be underground local fibre (Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee, Supplementary Budget Estimates , 19 October 2010, page 107), suggesting that the remaining one-third of cabled premises will connected by overhead cable: (a) how many thousand kilometres of overhead cables will be built; (b) what height above the ground will the cables be; and (c) what implications will this have for any plans by electricity distributors or State and Territory governments to put electricity cables underground.