South Korea Throws Down Bandwidth Gauntlet: Universal 1Gbps by 2012

[Commentary] The most ambitious broadband plan for the US is 100Mbps by 2015. Koreans to Have 1Gbps by 2012. And this isn't just a vague promise. They've got a specific plan to generate roughly $25 billion in total investment by investing $1 billion in government dollars. Of course there are vast differences in the geography and marketplace in South Korea and the US. But the underlying truth still stands that they're leaving us in their dust because they have more vision, energy, and unity than we do. Plus we need to understand that since we are much bigger than a South Korea or Japan that even if we had a big plan in place it's going to take two or three times as long to wire our whole country. And we don't even have agreed upon goals let alone a plan on how to accomplish them!