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.

Fragile broadband lead

[Gefiltefish11]

One well-placed North Korean nuke and South Korea's broadband capacity won't look quite as attractive to business.

Re:South Korea.

[Hayzeus]

No -- that would be "North Korea". Do not be fooled by the lies of the Americans -- Dear Leader is one seriously l33t d00d.

Re:South Korea.

[Guppy06]

Yeah, DPRK is still working on "America's Twenty-Four Hours of Continuous Electricity" dream.

Re:lets not forget what type of economic system

[Anonymous Coward]

they have a government driven Capitolist system.

What, the Government spends all it's time encouraging the erection of more government buildings?

(hur hur, he said 'erection')

Re:Fragile broadband lead

[YrWrstNtmr]

One well-placed North Korean nuke and South Korea's broadband capacity won't look quite as attractive to business.

And North Korea won't look attractive to anyone but cockroaches.

Oh, wait...

Re:South Korea.

[JonnyElvis42]

No -- that would be "North Korea". Do not be fooled by the lies of the Americans -- Dear Leader is one seriously l33t d00d.

As the one person in his country with access to email, yes, over there, he probably is.

Re:South Korea.

[RealTimeFreeAgent]

When they get a solution to that, I hope they let California in on the secret.

Re:How about Canada?

[phippy]

uh...either that, or they don't have their lights on, right ?

Re:No Need to Be Jealous of Korea: the American Wa

[Pres. Ronald Reagan]

Capitalism is the most compassionate economic system there is.

Re:Blame Canada

[RobinH]

canada is a huge nation geographically, has a very small population, with most of that population clustered in some areas mostly close to the US border.

While you are technically correct, I need to point out that while most Canadians live *close* to the continental U.S. border, very very few actually live right near it. The reasons Canadians are located geographically where they are is:

1) Proximity to water (due to early colonization)
2) Milder weather

It's a common misconception in the U.S. that Canadians all live near the U.S. because they want to be close to it but if that were true, Windsor and Niagara Falls would be the size of Toronto, and only about 300 people (all MPs) would live in Ottawa. The truth is, heavy pollution and frequent shootings tend to kill off anyone who lives to close to the U.S.

Ha ha, just kidding. (kind of)

Re:interesting

[t0ny]

try telling Comcast you cant get DSL for $30. It seems to work sometimes (it happened to a friend, and Im trying it tomorrow).