In America we think Charter's 60 Mbps Cable is fast, well in Korea the
entire country will have 1 Gbps service by 2012, that's 16 times
faster than Charter's fastest 60Mbps highspeed service. Currently,
Koreans can get speeds up to 100 Mbps, which is still nearly double
the speed of Charter's new 60 Mbps service. The new plan by the Korea
Communications Commission (KCC) will cost 34.1 trillion ($24.6 billion
USD) over the next five years. The central government will put up 1.3
trillion won, with the remainder coming from private telecom
operators. The project is also expected to create more than 120,000
jobs - a win for the Korean economy.
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All Koreans to Have 1Gbps Broadband by 2012
Posted on Tuesday, February 03 2009 @ 3:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck