Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): The information Senator Birmingham is seeking is detailed, complex and involves a number of construction partners. It is not simply a question of NBN pressing a button. When it comes to negotiating with NBN Co., there are four construction partners that are also involved in the process of these estimates. When it comes to activations, which is a different question and which is what you are now referring to, I can tell you that NBN Co. is now I think well past 40,000 people in Australia—40,000 Australians are using the National Broadband Network and iiNet have just announced that they have doubled the number of people in the last three months; iiNet have doubled the number of fibre connections that they have got. (Time expired)