While we’re all celebrating Charter’s 60Mbps broadband access here in the US, the Korea Communications Commission is spending $US24 billion to secure 1Gbps access by 2012.
1Gbps allows you to download a 120-minute film in 12 seconds.
There’s one small catch to the commission’s plan, which is that only large cities in Korea will have access to the top tier broadband. But surrounding smaller areas will still have access to 50 to 100 Mbps speeds…or about 10 to 20 times the speed of what I get in my DSL-only apartment building.
In the words of Matt Buchanan, “That and bibimbap? Man I hate Korea.” [Fareastgizmos]
Zhou
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 8:51 AMYet another example to show how backwards our internet infrastructure is in Australia. Good work Telstra.
boc
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 8:45 PMActually your grievance should be with government. We are capable of doing this and all commercial parties would love to do this option.
Government however are obsessed with servicing 99% of the population. If the government allowed tiered service to the city and the country and remote areas then we could establish infrastructure competitive to the rest of the world.
The post clearly states that is what Korea is doing. A tiered approach to infrastructure rollout.