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

Again, the opposition is operating under a misapprehension. If people want an analog phone, we will continue to provide exactly what people want. So people will have the capacity to maintain their existing phones if they want. The only way that it can be given up is if they decide it should be given up, but the NBN does not require this. The NBN will allow the capacity for an analog phone exactly as is used today, in exactly the same way that it is used today, if people so choose. There is no suggestion the NBN is forcing people to give up their fixed line, their analog phone. That is again another of those furphies that those opposite are trying to use to try to discredit the National Broadband Network. What you have to continue to understand is the NBN is a wholesale-only company. It does not provide retail services. (Time expired)