Senator FIFIELD (Victoria—Manager of Government Business in the Senate, Minister for Communications, Minister for the Arts and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Government) (14:01): The good news is that currently 1.3 million Australian premises can have access to the NBN. Currently, there are about 600,000 subscribers. By the middle of 2018 we will be getting close to nine million people who will potentially have access. The NBN is on target to be fully rolled out by 2020. Senator Moore: Mr President, I rise on a point of order on direct relevance. The minister got to it before he sat down, but the question was specifically on time frames. It was not about numbers, but about the time frame and whether it has been increased from the previous process. The PRESIDENT: The minister was addressing the question. Senator FIFIELD: As I was going to say, under the coalition's plan the NBN will be rolled out nationwide six to eight years earlier than would have been the case under those opposite. It is very interesting to note today that Mr Jason Clare has declared that it remains the Labor Party's intention to introduce a full fibre network. What that means is billions of dollars of additional costs and massive delays to the full completion of the NBN.