NEITHER Australia nor the world has seen anything quite like Labor's National Broadband Network. No other government in the world is committing the scale of funding - a cost of $37.4 billion - or attempting to build such a far-reaching fibre network as the one promised by the NBN.
As a vision, there's much to be admired in the mammoth infrastructure project that aims to connect 93 per cent of the nation to a fibre network capable of download speeds as fast as 1000Mbps by 2021.