Wyatt Roy (Longman, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am going to take this opportunity to congratulate the Minister for Communications on the work that he is doing to get the NBN rollout back on track. As part of the NBN rollout, we are going to see a trial of our policy of fibre-to-the-node rolled out across 200,000 homes across the country—that is 30,000 homes in the electorate of Longman.

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Wyatt Roy (Longman, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I see members opposite interjecting about how we are getting the NBN rollout back on track: as I said, in the next 12 months we expect to pass 200,000 premises across the country with our policy—under Labor, it took four long years to deliver that access to that many homes. Using fibre-to-the-node—our policy—in the UK in the same time period, BT was able to pass 19 million premises. So we have a situation where, under the coalition, locals will enjoy incredibly fast internet, years sooner and at less cost to the taxpayer. I see members opposite interjecting and saying it is not fast enough—well, for people in my electorate who have some of the worst internet in the country, the speeds will be more than enough to stream 10 high-definition TV shows into the home at one time, and to upload a three-minute YouTube video in just 42 seconds. We are getting the NBN back on track, and it will ensure that locals have affordable internet at extremely high speeds, years sooner they would have under Labor.