12-09-2008, 07:07 AM
lafinfil wrote:
Look at the Korean model. They have a very wide spread broadband system that reaches into the rural areas.
It is very inexpensive because it is government subsidized but there are many companies making money
by charging for services or entertainment over the system.
I'm getting a little bit tired of hearing just how great South Korea's broadband system is. The reason that internet service is fast and cheap there is because their population density is well over 10 times ours, with much of that population living in mega cities. I've been there and seen first hand the enormous high rise apartment complexes. You just bring your fiber in, and whammo, you've got thousands of customers living within a stones throw of each other. NYC is the only American city that even comes remotely close to the population density of Seoul. And then we have our wide open spaces...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cit...population