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.

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Re:How about Canada?

[axxackall]

US goverment artificially does everything to make DSL as hard available for Americans as possible. So, Americans has to use dialup. Most of Americans use AOL. AOL is under the same roof as CNN. And the goverment want to make sure that most of new American people read from CNN. Simple. Because they don't want Americans to think.

Let's take the situation with International Crime Court. I was reading about since the begining, since the time when Bush administration said that American soldiers cannot be called to that court. That was actually even before Afganistan compain. And you know what? All Europian and Asian news agencies was full of headlines about such a scandal story ("America wants to be above the international law!"), but CNN has keeping a silence in about 5 days until it first time has mentionened the story. They have been waiting the further developement of events or commands from the White House or both.

I know, the most of American /.ers are on DSL already. But they are a fraction of % of all Americans. Besides they are "strange people" for the most of Americans. No one will listen them. 99.99% - that's the number the administration wants to control. They must watch CNN and only CNN and they must connect to internet using AOL and only AOL.

As for Canada - somehow here the goverment is more free to do its corrupted business no matter what Canadians read, think and say. That's why it's way too simpler and cheaper and of better quality to get DSL here in GTA than in Silicon Valley. I know what I am talking about - I used to use DSL in both places.