> They'll find some way to cripple it for sure, like sticking a 200GB/month cap on it. Australia can't have nice things :/

If you look at many of the plans already offered by ISP's, you'll find that this isn't the case.[1]

Once more homes are connected, these limits are only likely to increase (as they have each year prior). Perhaps we shouldn't have limits at all, and just pay for a pipe of a certain bandwidth; but from an ISP's perspective they implement these caps to protect themselves from abuse by a small % of users.

Personally I'd rather know my cap is there, as opposed to the odd behavior of many US ISPs in targeting "high usage" users with what seems like little transparency.

[1]: http://www.iinet.net.au/nbn/nbn-plan-residential.html

As an Aussie who left to live in the USA, let me assure you Australia has many, many nice things.

Healthcare, education, safety are very high on the list of things you should be thankful for, and are high on the list of reasons I'll be coming back (at some point)

Or Labor will muck up this election and the Libs will muck up the NBN.

You have universal healthcare

How is that crippling it? From the point of view of subsidized public infrastructure, it's much better to keep it fast for everyone than to let it get overloaded with people torrenting movies.