Rural independent MP Tony Windsor says he is unlikely to support shadow communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull's bill calling for a cost-benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network.

China-based networking giant Huawei says the announcement of another fibre to the home roll-out in the region - the latest in Brunei - demonstrates Australia is on the right track with its own plans for an FTTH National Broadband Network.

The powerful lobby Australian Industry Group has thrown its weight behind the National Broadband Network, calling the project an "unprecedented opportunity" for business innovation and placed a premium value on the ubiquitous nature of the fibre roll-out.

The private members bill introduced by opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull includes a mandatory requirement that the NBN Company publish a full ten-year business plan, with all financial and operational details for the roll-out and running of the network.

Australia probably doesn't need a large information technology production industry, and may be better focusing on being sophisticated users, the Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens said.

Malcolm Turnbull's call for a Productivity Commission cost-benefit study of the National Broadband Network was a waste of money, and Mr Turnbull was unlikely to support the roll-out even if such a report was positive, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says.

Despite the Coalition apparently now supporting the separation of Telstra, as well as most of the consumer safeguard measures that Government is proposing in its industry reform bill, Malcolm Turnbull says there is still a lot to oppose in the legislation.

South Australian balance of power senator Nick Xenophon remains a strong supporter of the Government telecommunications reform objectives - including provisions to structurally separate Telstra - and subject to a closer reading of the bill presented to Parliament yesterday will vote to approve its passage.

With Victoria increasingly seen as the natural home of research related to the National Broadband Network, the State Government has awarded a further $15 million in funding for projects that develop and pilot applications that run on high-speed broadband.

The Australian newspaper was "waging a war" against the National Broadband Network and against the Gillard Government, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has charged.