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Today, I found this piece of news about broadband in Korea. This is one of my interest recently. Please read this first.
And the numbers are impressive ?South Korea has the highest per capita broadband penetration in the world. Slightly more than half of its households have high-bandwidth connections, compared to less than 10 percent in the US. The growth in broadband has surged in the last three years from a few hundred thousand subscribers to 8.5 million
As luck would have it, urban apartment dwellers have a lot of broadband capacity right under their noses, courtesy of Kepco, the public power utility, which developed a network of fiber-optic cables for its own use years ago. In 1996, South Korea allowed Kepco to lease the unused 90 percent of its capacity, giving upstart providers a cheap, instant last-mile solution. Sharp competition with Korea Telecom, which the government forced to open its network in the early '90s, has driven broadband prices down to the world's lowest levels. All-you-can-eat service is available for as little as $25 a month.
I partly disagree with the report on some details.
South Korea has the highest per capita broadband penetration in the world? No.
According to Nielsen/NetRatings report, Hong Kong seems to be the top region in the world, with amazing 66.6% of people accessing Internet using broadband. German 45%, Switherland 43%.... United States ranked low with 17% broadband access, not less than 10%.
... drives broadband prices down to the world's lowest level? Maybe.
It is true that it is of the world's lowest level, but it is not the lowest price in the world. In Shanghai, ADSL (type of DSL) charges 130 RMB ($15.7) each month. For 100M broadband, like GWBN, it costs only 100 RMB ($12) for one month.
Korea did great job in broadband deployment? Yes.
It is amazing to see how Korea is wired with broadband. The online game, PC Baangs, and the certification for buildings.... all sound exciting.
Much more problems ahead for broadband deployment in Shanghai
I checked local media to find the comparasion data in Shanghai. At last, I found this one:
Internet users in Shanghai exceeded one million last week. 61.7% in urban area chose traditional dial-up, the other 38.3% chose broadband. source: Jie Fang Daily (Chinese site)
However, the situation here is not that good than in Korea. Another report from Eastday.com (Chinese site), only 5% of the residents are subscribers of broadband. News about the finanical difficulties for some broadband companies is full of media.
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at September 15, 2002 11:14 PM
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Jian Shuo, can you explain further what 100M GWBN is?
Thx.
Posted by: Bill on September 16, 2002 1:26 PMIt is a very good question. Actually, I shoud describe this in more details in the article.
GWBN uses traditional LAN technology to provide access to Internet. It typically install a 100M switch for each building, which means the inbound network cable has the capacity of 100M. If you access servers on the same LAN, and some local resources, you have the speed of 100M. This is what I call 100M GWBN. It is very high speed comparied with other offers like DSL, which is 512K. Of cause when access Internet web site which typically not on the high speed LAN, the speed will be limited by the connection between the site and the LAN.
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Posted by: remained (external link) on September 2, 2005 1:13 PMSouth Korea has the highest per capita broadband penetration in the world? No.
According to Nielsen/NetRatings report, Hong Kong seems to be the top region in the world, with amazing 66.6% of people accessing Internet using broadband. German 45%, Switherland 43%.... United States ranked low with 17% broadband access, not less than 10%.
Perhaps they excluded Hong Kong because it is not a country.
Posted by: bob on December 11, 2007 12:52 AM