Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. What we have in fact done is make the supply, installation and maintenance of payphones part of the universal service obligation. We have done this because we recognise that access to payphones is an important community service. It is critical that pay telephones that are subject to the universal service obligation are maintained. Payphones that are non-commercial, where I said that there are more than two in one particular location—