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paulg_68  4 stars
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 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
What could I do with 1 gigabyte download speed that I can't do with 25 megabyte download speed?

I can watch high def movies at 25 megabytes. What else am I going to do? Watch 40 movies at once?

 

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eodoll  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-2-14 12:35:42
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
Screw that.. I dont want public broadband. That would just give the govt greater eavesdropping skills.
Tych2  4 stars
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
I know just in MA there is a lot of empty space between Boston and Western MA. I've driven through Texas and the vast empty space between San Antonio and El Paso was staggering. All that empty space to string fiber optics will have to be paid for.

I wonder how many empty spaces there are between Seoul and Daegu.

 

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Ptilk  4 stars
Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
It's not public broadband.

Private companies in partnership with the S. Korean government developed the system, and it's run by private companies....with very strict limits on pricing and very strict demands upon availability.
Testerion  3 stars
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Registered: 2001-12-28 03:07:47
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
Ptilk posted:
It's not public broadband.

Private companies in partnership with the S. Korean government developed the system, and it's run by private companies....with very strict limits on pricing and very strict demands upon availability.



Thats how Finland is doing it...Our government is making broadband available to all by showering private companies with cash if they agree to pull fiber to low-profit areas.

 

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dae_trist  4 stars
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Registered: 2003-6-5 13:32:39
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
Tych2 posted:
I know just in MA there is a lot of empty space between Boston and Western MA. I've driven through Texas and the vast empty space between San Antonio and El Paso was staggering. All that empty space to string fiber optics will have to be paid for.

I wonder how many empty spaces there are between Seoul and Daegu.



Red states are a huge drain on federal coffers because, among many other things, transport and shipping to all areas within the US is subsidized afaik

Should be consistent, either way.

 

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Koneg  3 stars
Title: Evil Genius
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Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
Ptilk posted:
South Korean government spent 70 billion over the past decade improving broadband.

To equal that, the US government (on a per capita basis) would have had to spend more than 400 billion.

You get what you pay for. They got the best broadband infrastructure on the planet. We got a stupid war in Iraq.

Well, if your intent was to obfuscate with numbers, you succeeded.

The problem with your simplistic per-capita number is that it completely ignores what has already been pointed out: 3,794,101 sq mi

Now go re-run your numbers, using population density per square mile, and see what you come up with. Free clue: Verizon spent almost $30 billion just in their initial FIOS deployment.

Ptilk posted:
The "we are too big to be good" argument is the most asinine response ever.

I'm guessing you think that because you're an ignorant moran with absolutely no idea what the costs are.

But, that's just a guess. I could be wrong I suppose.


AzureTyger posted:
We'll never have public broadband of that nature here,

Sure we will. It's already happening, just at a slower pace.

 

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dae_trist  4 stars
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Registered: 2003-6-5 13:32:39
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
Even in counties or regions where America is as densely populated broadband speeds are not as fast as South Korea's, and the cost of the Iraq War would have covered far more than just a few hundred billion given that it incurred trillions in damages, and not just wealth transfers within the country.

 

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Clackdor  1 star
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Registered: 2001-9-21 12:10:52
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
dae_trist posted:
Red states are a huge drain on federal coffers because, among many other things, transport and shipping to all areas within the US is subsidized afaik



Your welcome for all the food grown in those wide open spaces of red states. S. Korea appreciates it, also.

 

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Koneg  3 stars
Title: Evil Genius
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Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: South Korea to have country wide 1gigabyte broadband network by this summer
dae_trist posted:
Even in counties or regions where America is as densely populated broadband speeds are not as fast as South Korea's

You're right, they won't be "as fast" as SK... because they're already faster.

Gigabit-to-the-home is already available in several communities.

Would you like to be wrong again? (Y/n)

 

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