asked the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in writing, on 21 February 2011:

In respect of paragraph 2.1.2 of the NBN Co Limited’s Fibre Access Services: Product Overview (August 2010), which says that access seekers will have ‘…the option to add incremental CIR [Committed Information Rate] bandwidth to support “just-in-time and real-time” applications such as voice and video.’: does this mean that access seekers wishing to offer a voice only service will need to pay a premium, beyond the $24 per month entry level NBN product, to obtain a CIR product suitable to support voice services; if so, what is the minimum monthly total wholesale price that an access seeker will be required to pay for this product.