Korea plans ultra fast broadband

[Jerrek]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3222664.stm

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">South Korea's dedication to a national broadband infrastructure gets even more intense, as the country invests billions in a 100Mbps national network. According to the BBC, the government will pick up the tab for a portion of the nearly $2 billion in infrastructure upgrades for the world's fourth "most wired" nation. The South Korea government will shell out almost six hundred million for the project, with industry doling out the rest. The upgrades are expected to be completed by 2010. The country, with a population of 48 million, has spent $9 billion on building Internet infrastructure since June 1998 <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

[microfast]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Jerrek</i>
.... The South Korea government will shell out almost six hundred million for the project, ...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Yeh, There the government shells it out for the people....

Here, they not so patriotic... somehow they manage to turn it around that we shell it out for the government.

It's just a few laws made by a few to benefit a few

[kidstyx]

All the new apartments in Korean now comes built-in with 20mbit VDSL connection for just 30000Won (equivalent to R150) p/m... No bandwidth limits... (I can state this because my cousins live in Korea and I am a Korean myself...)

Die telskums, die... [}:)]

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[Strobemeister]

Ja, and its not just them.
This article briefly spells out just what other countries are up to in the broadband market.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1114323,00.html

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">True broadband means laying fibre optic threads along the "last mile" from the exchange to the home at speeds 100-200 times faster than current broadband.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
I wonder when and if this will ever happen here.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">A number of countries are at various stages of getting fibre to the home, including Japan, South Korea, Italy, Singapore and even eastern Germany.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
This might solve our famous copper wire theft prob, lol.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">In the US a consortium called "100 by 100" is thinking how the internet itself can be improved to give 100m US homes access at speeds 100 times faster than today's high-speed domestic connections. The most interesting plan of all is in Iceland, where Reykjavik Energy (not the publicly owned telephone utility, interestingly) is about to decide whether to push ahead with plans to connect every home in the Reykjavik area with fibre, the most intense operation of its kind in the world.
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Awesome.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Telecoms engineers have worked wonders in squeezing amazing data speeds out of 50-year-old copper wires. However, nothing yet devised has the speed and reliability of fibre cable. The arrival of fibre in the home will almost certainly happen sooner or later. But the big payback will go to any country that adopts it quickly and wholeheartedly - as ours should.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
This type of thing really shows us where we are compared to these guys.



<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">The long-term success of modern economies will depend on the speed with which they exploit the IT revolution.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Unfortunately, Telscum do not agree with this, or they care less.

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.

[werny]

LOL, we are now in 2012 and cant even get 10Mbps ADSL that is stable enough, this thread makes me sick because they planed this in 2003 already. :cry: