Senior Liberal senator Nick Minchin believes the Coalition's $6 billion broadband plan will be more attractive to three country-based independent MPs, whose support both parties appear likely to need to govern.

Mr Micnhin said he sensed the independents favoured the cheaper plan pushed by the Liberal and Nationals than Labor's planned $43 billion network.

The Coalition's plan was very much focused on regional and rural Australia, Senator Minchin said.

''Our policy is to focus taxpayer resources where they are most needed and that is to provide services where they would otherwise be uneconomic and that is in rural and regional Australian,'' he told Sky News.

''Frankly I think our broadband policy should be much more attractive and it is much more economically responsible to the three independents.''