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America's Broadband Dream Is Alive-- In Korea

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the global-positioning dept.

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.

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  1. Blame Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The U.S. is a lot more spread out than Korea, though

    And what about Canada? They're up there too with ~%50 penetration. You can't really claim that they're much less spread out than the US. I imagine that dense urban areas, where implementing broadband would be easiest, make up a similar percentage of population as well.

    On top of that their rates are lower than those in the US (in Candian $'s nonetheless!).

  2. Wow, Canada is double than US by Bazouel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the site :

    1- South Korea : 57.4 %
    2- Canada : 49.9 %
    3- Japon : 25.6 %
    4- USA : 22.8 %

    Canada ratio is double than that of USA !

    I guess that kind of make the argument "The U.S. is a lot more spread out than Korea" a bit overdue at the very least :)

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  3. Re:Much Easier in Korea by inaeldi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But look at Canada. Canada is even more spread out that the US and it has far better broadband access (than the US, not Korea).