Here in Australia we're often led by technological visionaries.

> In 2010, Turnbull called 100Mbps internet "a gigantic torching of taxpayers' money." In 2013 then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a download speed of 25Mbps will be "more than enough" for the average Australian household.

Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott (both subsequent prime ministers) put serious effort and political capital into ensuring our national (fiber) network was never built properly, setting us back at least 15-20 years (sunk cost on the low-quality deployment we ended up with).

Always nice to see we're not alone in poor-planning and top-shelf world-class short-sightedness.