The Coalition has committed $750 million to improve existing broadband infrastructure, as part of its broadband plan.
They announced that rural and regional networks would get $1bn to extend wireless coverage and another $1bn for metropolitan wireless networks.
The Coalition's plan will provide up to $6.315bn over seven years in investment funding.
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It also promises 97 per cent of homes to get a broadband speed between 12 mbps up to 100mbps by 2016.
The remaining three per cent of homes would be serviced by satellite services.
The coalition plan provides for a mix of fixed line, wireless and satellite access to high-speed broadband.
Private sector contribution
The plan would be private-sector based, in contrast to the government's network.
The Coalition's finance spokesman, Andrew Robb, says its broadband plan would be private-sector based, saying Labor's National Broadband Network (NBN) "bets the house on a single technology".
Mr Robb says the Coalition wants to create "a vibrant private sector-based broadband market."
Broadband commission
The Coalition says it will establish a National Broadband Commission to implement the plan.
It would provide $2 billion in funds for fixed wireless networks and $750 million to increase the number of homes that can receive a DSL service.
The Coalition will spend $2.75bn on a nation wide competitive fibre-optic backbone by 2017.
Labor's plan
Labor has pledged to spend $43 billion on a National Broadband Network, of which the Government would be a majority stakeholder.
Communications spokesman Tony Smith, who will debate Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Greens spokesman Scott Ludlam later today at the National Press Club.
The network has already begun to be rolled out in Tasmania and is due to be completed by 2018.
