The Australian government has announced that it will build a national high-speed broadband network worth $31 billion in one of the largest state-sponsored Internet infrastructure upgrades in the world. The project will be watched carefully by other governments considering Internet infrastructure spending as a way to stimulate growth as the global economic crisis continues. NYT

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