Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

We saw Google announce Kansas City as the first recipient of their 1GB Fiber-network initiative this week. It's hard to fathom how fast it's going to be and what economy-boosting commercial opportunities such high speed data moving could present. But compare it to New Zealand's current stats and you start to get an overall picture of what a sad a state of affairs our broadband is in.