AUSTRALIAN households would get internet connections fast enough to download all their entertainment needs under the federal coalition's national broadband network (NBN) plan, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
The coalition is offering minimum download speeds of 25 megabits per second (mps) by the end of its first term in 2016, if it wins government from Labor this year.
While this is slower than the minimum 100mps being offered under Labor's NBN project, Mr Abbott argues the coalition's plan would be better and cheaper to deliver.
It wants to use technology - which Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has labelled "second rate" - that runs fibre optic cable to the "node", or boxes on street corners.
This means the final connection to a home would be through Telstra's existing copper network, rather than through a fibre optic cable all the way to the premise, as the government is doing.
"We will build fibre to the node and that eliminates two thirds of the cost," Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney on Tuesday.
But Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese said that would be a disaster because, unlike the government's fibre-to-the-premise technology, it couldn't be easily upgraded.
"This policy ... for most cases, won't result in any higher speeds being delivered," he told reporters in Canberra.
Federal independent MP Tony Windsor agreed.
"The 'full-strength' NBN will better enable technologies and services that haven't even been thought of to be delivered," he said in a statement.
The coalition puts the capital cost of its plan at $20.4 billion, against Labor's $37.4 billion.
Including funding, the cost rises to $29.5 billion, against $44.1 billion under the project being overseen by the government-owned NBN Co Ltd.
Queried about the 25mps minimum speed for households, opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said broadband utility flattened out in a residential environment.
Mr Abbott said 25mps would be enough for home usage, adding that at that speed a family of four could simultaneously download four different sport or movie programs.
"We are absolutely confident 25 megs is going to be enough, more than enough, for the average household," he said.
While the coalition is offering only fibre-to-the-node services for most households, high-end users like hospitals, educational centres and new housing estates would get connections to premises.
"It's very flexible," Mr Turnbull said of the policy.
But Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne said the concept of installing tens of thousands of boxes on street corners meant most households would be "stranded" on a decaying copper network while new housing estates got modern fibre technology.
"It's a farce," she said in Hobart.
A 25mps speed is about five times better than what most Australians get now, and if the coalition won a second term, the minimum speed would increase to 50mps for the vast majority of households.
"I am confident that it gives Australians what they need," Mr Abbott said.
Under the coalition's plan, the NBN rollout would be completed by the end of 2019 instead of the current deadline of 2021, with priority given to areas that are most underserviced.
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