Also, if you mention the existence of ISP broadband caps, on/off peak traffic caps, shaping, overage fees, etc. to someone in the US, they'll probably look at you like you're crazy.

Although then they have to deal with secret caps on "unlimited" plans which you aren't told about until you hit them and the ISP berates you for it and cuts off your service -- Google "Comcast caps".

Keep in mind that Rupert Murdoch owns half of Foxtel which is the main cable tv network in Australia as well as owning most of the newspapers (he has a monopoly in several states). The argument that you can watch tv from companies like Netflix under an NBN is one of the main reasons the opposition is getting an easy run from the media here. Every year Rupert is spared that is millions more in the bank. The ALP were a bit disorganised and people might not like some of their policies but Australia's economic record under them is solid. Good enough for the Economist to give them the nod anyway.

Foxtel is so ubiquitous in Australia that the name has become a genericised trademark for "cable TV".

It's funny when people say RT is a propaganda machine, when all major news here is from one source. :)

Rupie's dad was briefly the Australian Director General for Information during WWII but apparently nobody could stand him. Our answer to Goebbels. They don't fall far from the tree.

I'm surprised Labor didn't go on the attack against Murdoch a lot more.