In Australia, one government proposed and accepted to build the whole nations internet architecture on fibre. There was a government change, and the next govern

In Australia, one government proposed and accepted to build the whole nations internet architecture on fibre. There was a government change, and the next government said "copper is good enough for anyone! No-one needs more than 1mb of internet". To this day we're still trying to upgrade the infrastructure, and replace copper with fibre, and the cost so far is far above twice the initial estimate of cost.