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hugekebab
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:02 am Post subject: South Korea to get 1GPS broadband by 2012. |
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/02/south-koreans-could-see-1gbps-web-connections-by-2012/
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| The world at large still has aways to go before it catches up with Sweden's Sigbritt L�thberg, but South Korea's hoping to take a baby step in that direction by 2012. According to a new proposal by the Korea Communications Commission, it's aiming to make broadband ten times faster in its nation in under three years, and according to the plan, it'll take some $24.6 billion in order to make it happen. The central government is looking to cough up around a third of that, with the rest having to come from private telecommunications companies. We're told that the initiative could create upwards of 120,000 jobs, and citizens will be able to kiss their 100Mbps connections goodbye as they replace 'em with 1Gbps alternatives. The KCC hopes the move will enable more interactive TV services to be delivered along with additional e-commerce and home schooling; South Korean residents, however, are probably just stoked about lowering their ping times. |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| yes because my ping of 3 is just too high god dammit! |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| With the land area thats 4 times of vancouver island its possible to do that.. But its only the backbone not to your house.. 24 bilion is still a boat load of money even for a small country. |
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NoExplode
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| I_Am_The_Kiwi wrote: |
| yes because my ping of 3 is just too high god dammit! |
yeah, i get low pings too, but pages load incredibly slow here if you ask me. Sometimes upwards of 30 seconds to have even Korean sites load. especially the portals like Naver and Daum. It's generally bad programming, malware and spyware embedded trying to get into your system, but still. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Ping as low as 3.. Yeah maybe to Korean servers anything of this peninsula sky rockets. |
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sobriquet
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| My eyes will bleed with that much porn coming at me that fast. |
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Elric222
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Craziness. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Mark my words:
Along with it, you're likely to see some pretty serious controls on how you use it to communicate. Certain entities will want to make money off of your back to do voice chatting, internet telephony, etc.
We'll end up paying for some things we've enjoyed for free. |
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Pink Freud
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| sobriquet wrote: |
| My eyes will bleed with that much porn coming at me that fast. |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| Seems to me they'd want to try to fix unemployment and the Korean economy first |
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hugekebab
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| man pinging japan gets 170...uk to germany is in the 60's uk to east coast us usually ends up 150 roughly. Why is that? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Active-x controls delivered at 1GPS.
In other news, the government has decided to run the KTX train on the existing regular train rails. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| ChinaBoy wrote: |
| Seems to me they'd want to try to fix unemployment and the Korean economy first |
Yeah, yeah....and we should give AIDS drugs to Africa before launching a billion-dollar RC car to Mars too.
People suck. |
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