Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It is fascinating that those opposite cling to this ambition that there is some new technological development that is going to be able to be used on copper. Let me explain to you the laws of physics yet again. If you live in Willunga, you need to live within four kilometres of the exchange to get ADSL. If you live in Willunga and you want to get ADSL2+, you have to live within 1.5 kilometres of an exchange. And if you want the next generation of technology, called VDSL, you have to live within 900 metres. Those on the opposite side who keep clinging to this new technological development they are about to invent—