Worldwide State of Broadband - S Korea, Japan Lead

Geek of the Week writes "No surprise here, a report by the International Telecommunications Union shows the US lagging in broadband adoption. S Korea and Japan lead with between 60 and 70% of S Korean households wired for speed, with Japan catching up quickly. The U.S. ranks 11th. Story here and the full press release can be found on the ITU website. Having traveled through Asia for business I can't say I'm surprised, but it is disappointing that the availability and price are in such sorry states here in the U.S."

Re:In Japan

[Xerithane]

And you get free IPv6, and your cellphone can support 3MBit, with the 2 megapixel camera built-in to capture pictures of Godzilla battling a mecha while blue haired girls sing songs in the background with short skirts.

P.S. You should have said, "In The Island of Japan", which is a very popular phrase on here.

S. Korea and broadband

[Ziest]

Judging by the amount of spam I am getting from Korea I think we need to take the Internet away from them ;-/

Full league tables anyone?

[fiannaFailMan]

Anyone know where to get a listing of the _full_ leaderboard?

Re:Not too hard to get that level of penetration..

[ReadParse]

He said "penetration"... hehe

Re:It's not entirely population density

[MMaestro]

I still can't believe no one has brought up this fact. Japan was basicly leveled during World War II. The result? A giant check from the U.S. to rebuild itself leapfrogged all the old primitive ideas still used by the U.S.

Metric system
Driving on the other side of the street
Mass producing and distributing of telephone poles
Etc.

Similiarly in Europe the same thing happened. They weren't stupid and didn't fall back on old methods, no they took what was great and used primarily that. Its common sense, when the expenses are all paid for by someone else, you're gonna go with the best at the other person's expense. (ie. Good luck trying to raise enough funds to strip down and remodel the U.S.)

Re:Not too hard to get that level of penetration..

[shfted!]

You don't need lower prices to get better penetration. What you need is lubricant when they send the bill!