Monday, February 2nd 2009
Korea to Get 1Gbps Internet Access by 2012
Imagine internet connectivity at 1Gbps, speeds at which a 120 minute SD film gets downloaded in 12 seconds! The Korea Communications Commission is reportedly spending $22 Billion in upgrading its telecommunications infrastructure that facilitates public internet connections with such extremely high bandwidth as 1Gbps for fixed-lines and up to 10 Mbps for wireless connections. Korea plans to to operationalise this by the year 2012, starting with urban centres, mainly large cities with relatively affluent populations. Other places in the country will still get internet access at speeds of up to 100 Mbps.
Source:
Far East Gizmos
34 Comments on Korea to Get 1Gbps Internet Access by 2012
Our net is pretty quick for some plans - ie I am on a 30mbit/1mbit connection, but the download limits suck, ie I only get 12GB/month.
Our govt wants to install fibre optics around the whole country though (~$4 billion). That'll speed up everything but its just a matter of if/when they will do it lol.
No we only get the chance to opt out of the mega draconian filter for the semi bad one instead wich is my understanding of it.
And yeah id love ul dl instead of the 25 gig a month i get but what can we do. =/