As Australians continue to make do with a half-baked broadband service, New Zealand has indicated that it would be reducing prices for its ultra-fast broadband services as it announced that half a million had taken up the service.

The sad reality of the NBN is that 100Mbps connections are just too slow in 2018, and only God knows when gigabit Internet will become cheap and affordable for all.

The oldest privately-developed high-rise apartment block in Melbourne is now connected to the Internet by a fibre network delivering 1000Mbps services.