The Australia Labor Party (ALP) has pledged to bring high-speed internet to 1.5 million additional homes and businesses through an upgrade of the National Broadband Network (NBN). The project will cost $2.4 billion dollars and accelerate ongoing NBN upgrades, giving Australians who now rely on copper wire connections the choice of having fibre connected directly into their homes if they want faster speeds. Labor has also said it would create 12,000 jobs. In a media release on Wednesday, Opposition leader Anthony Albanese said the Coalition had “dudded these families and businesses in 2013 when it took an axe to Labor’s original NBN plan.” Under that plan, devised by the Rudd Labor government in 2009, the NBN was set to overhaul the existing copper network by installing 21st-century optical fibre cable to more than 90 percent of homes and businesses around Australia. When the Liberal Party took office in 2013, they …