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American View On Korean Broadband Leadership
prostoalex writes "South Korea remains the world's undisputed broadband leader (in terms of penetration) with 25 broadband lines for every 100 people as of year-end 2004. But how did it come to that? Joel Strauch moved there to teach English and in his letter to PC World he portrays the everyday life in broadband heaven as well as names the reasons for Korean broadband dominance: 'An ambitious, nearly $11 billion program, it appears to be working. Studies have shown that over a quarter of Koreans have broadband and that anyone who wants it can sign up--with some ISPs charging as little as $19 a month for DSL. I pay $30 myself, for a 1.5-megabits-per-second (mbps) connection--twice the speed of my $50-a-month service back home in the United States.'"
Its says "American view on Korean broadband leadership" you ignorant shit "I pay $30 myself, for a 1.5-megabits-per-second (mbps) connection--twice the speed of my $50-a-month service back home in the United States." I'd say your comment was typically anti-american wasn't it? do anything to make an american look bad.
This is way offtopic.
You must be still using a modem.
Yeah, those are the numbers I have. You have a country of 290 million people achieving the third highest internet penetration rate in the world, that's none too shabby.
American also more PC's per capita.
Not that there isn't room for improvement, though. There always is.