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America's Broadband Dream Is Alive-- In Korea
An anonymous reader writes "America's Broadband Dream Is Alive in Korea thanks to government encouragement, according to the NY times (free reg, etc...). But profits are elusive." The U.S. is a lot more spread out than Korea, though -- some American cities are pretty well connected.
I mean will this really matter when the U.S. armed forces "Liberate" the hell outta Korea later this month?
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While this may be interesting, in a capitalist society such as the U.S., it is not the government's responsibility to provide Internet access to individuals. I am perfectly happy with my DSL as is, and i don't want them meddling in it. If I wanted socialism, I'd move to South Korea or Europe. But I don't.
30 something posts into the article, and know-it-all asshat HanzoSan hasn't dipped his oar in yet? Christ, there must be something hideously wrong.
broadband is just not affordable.
nearly $50/mo
If 70,000,000 people can afford to spend that much on cigarettes each month, I am sure you can afford to spend it on broadband internet access.
Nothing prevents you from moving. If broadband is your life's driving force, start packing your bags and learning to like korean pickled cabbage. Me, that alone would preclude me from ever moving to S. Korea. That shit stinks to high heaven.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
you ever notice how Korean people are so ugly? Look at the Korean female golfers. They are downright disgusting. Se Ri Pak has calves like a horse. Grace Park is just nasty, grandma looking.
Ughhh.
The density argument is a bunch of shit. I'm on the far north coast of Taiwan miles from anything close to a town. 1.5megDSL thirty bucks a month.
Bandwidth costs in the States because the people have decided to be satisfied with a government that suppoorts corporate welfare over human welfare.