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"COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy has failed to say whether a new attempt by the National Broadband Network to boost its subscriber base by offering internet providers cash for every new customer will result in price reductions for consumers.

As revealed in The Weekend Australian, a new strategy to attract users to the $37.4 billion tax-payer funded network will see internet service providers like Optus and Telstra paid $108 for each individual customer that signs up to the super fast broadband network.

The payments will be made to providers from January to June this year, in an attempt to enable NBN to pass its goal of 341,000 premises and have 54,000 actual customers by June.

In defending the payments yesterday, Senator Conroy described the new incentive scheme as legitimate "marketing activity" that is consistent with the NBN's corporate strategy.

"NBN Co is engaging in marketing activity in the same way any enterprise does. This is not activity outside the expected operation of NBN Co as outlined in its corporate plan," Senator Conroy told The Australian in a statement."



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