Labor demands full reveal of NBN strategic review

The shadow minister for communications, Jason Clare, has called on the Coalition government to fully disclose the contents of the NBN Strategic Review.

Mr Clare said a blog post that with the NBN report now on the table, Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull should release the "whole report."

"(Today) is D-Day for the Coalition's dud broadband policy," Mr Clare said.

"The Coalition promised that if elected they would conduct a 60-day strategic review. It is now more than 80 days since the election."

Mr Clare, and his assistant shadow minister Michelle Rowland have also put forward 14 questions that they say the review must provide details before the NBN's focus is switched from Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) to Fibre to the Node (FTTN).

"If the Government is going to move to a fibre-to-the-node model, the Strategic Review needs to provide realistic costs to fix and maintain the copper network they are going to use," Mr Clare said.

"We need this information before any 'weighty decisions' are made to switch from fibre-to-the-premises to fibre-to-the-node," Ms Rowland added.

The questions posed by the two ministers can be seen below:

How much is it going to cost to for NBN Co to access and use the Telstra copper network that will make its fibre-to-the-node model work? What data has Telstra provided about the copper network? Has it been audited? How much is it going to cost to fix/upgrade the copper network so that it is of a reliable standard? How much is it going to cost to operate and maintain the copper network over the next ten years? Does NBN Co plan to buy or lease the copper network from Telstra? What plans does NBN Co have to utilise the existing HFC network? How does the Government plan to plug the gaps in the HFC network? Will the HFC network be made open access? Given the Government promised to make the NBN easy to convert to a full fibre-to-the-premises network in the future, exactly how will this be done? When does the Government expect this to happen? When will agreements with Telstra, power companies, construction partners, and equipment vendors be completed? How many nodes will be constructed and what will be the maximum distance between a node and a premise? What will the node cost to build, operate and maintain? How will voice services be delivered in a fibre to the node model?