Australia had NBN. It would have been great, except that it got crippled when it was downgraded from FTTD to FTTN. Some lucky people still got FTTD before the pin was pulled, but most didn’t, although it seems that now FTTD is slowly being rolled out again in some urban areas, and some areas are getting FTTC

I live in a rural area of little old New Zealand. Last year, I got a flyer in the mailbox telling me I could get UFB (Our blanket term for fibre), which interested me no end as I’d been limping along on a very slow DSL connection. I figured, “Why not?”. In typical NZ fashion, it took about 4 times longer to get installed than it should have, with many false starts and a total loss of service for about a month. Everything that could go wrong did, from a mistaken cancelation of the SR to a blockage in the roadside conduit. Eventually the fibre tail from the pillar in our right of way to my house was connected to the fibre coming up the ROW and the ONT installed in my house. But was it worth it? Well, you decide:

This costs me only slightly more than the dismal DSL service I used to have. I guess we got what the Aussie NBN was supposed to have been…