Senate debates

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Questions without Notice

Broadband

2:41 pm

Photo of Mitch FifieldMitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The company published its audited half-year results earlier last month showing full fibre to the premises continuing to cost on average $4,419 per premise. In some cases the cost of connecting a premise actually runs into tens of thousands of dollars where there are lots of civil works to undertake. This is actually the model favoured by the Australian Labor Party, which is also known as 'fibre at any cost'.

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