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

The government has obviously leveraged a high level of commercial contribution towards building the new national wholesale network, with the government’s contribution assisting the business case for rolling out to non-commercial areas and premises. It was industry experts who came forward with the best mix of technologies to meet our policy aim of providing high-speed affordable broadband to 99 per cent of the population.