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Internet
ABC Elections
Coalition
- Will scrap Labor’s National Broadband Network
- Instead will spend $6.3 billion to improve services and deliver a network through private sector investment
- The network would provide 97 per cent of homes with broadband of speeds of between 12Mbps and 100Mpbs through fibre and wireless technologies by 2016
- Other homes would be covered by satelite technologies
- Scrap or vote against Labor’s ISP filter
Labor
- Committed to building a $43 billion National Broadband Network, giving over 93 per cent of Australians access to 100 megabit per second internet
- This would be delivered through “fibre-to-the-home” technology
- The network would be 51 per cent government owned, with 49 per cent investment from the private sector
- The remainder of homes would be covered under wireless or satelite technology
- To be finalised by 2018 and will eventually be sold off to the private sector
Greens
- Support Labor’s National Broadband Network but will push for it to remain in government hands
- Will vote against Labor’s ISP filter
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