 IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | How The Heck Did They Get The Operators On Board? South Korea has a population of about 50 million.
This is nearly $5,000 for every man, woman and child in South Korea, and $4,750 of that is coming from the carriers. How did they manage to swing this, and how can we get this model flowing elsewhere? | |
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 | | Re: How The Heck Did They Get The Operators On Board? It's incredible what can get done when you remove greed as the motivation and insert altruism in its place. | |
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 | IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | Re: How The Heck Did They Get The Operators On Board? said by Angrychair:It's incredible what can get done when you remove greed as the motivation and insert altruism in its place. I doubt it's altruism, they obviously think they can make money out of it at some point. | |
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| |  espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 | Re: How The Heck Did They Get The Operators On Board? The nice thing about government projects is you can have 50 or even 100 year ROIs. | |
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Baytown, TX
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1 edit | Re: How The Heck Did They Get The Operators On Board? and sometimes even a LOI (Loss Of Investment)
Its the government if the laws of the contry permit they could say do it or pay a penalty | |
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| | | IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | said by espaeth:The nice thing about government projects is you can have 50 or even 100 year ROIs. Thing is less than 5% of the money is coming from government. | |
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| | | | espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 Reviews:
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2 edits | Re: How The Heck Did They Get The Operators On Board? said by Ignite:said by espaeth:The nice thing about government projects is you can have 50 or even 100 year ROIs. Thing is less than 5% of the money is coming from government. Fair point. The subscriber densities still work out in the two major carriers' favor. SK Group owns 50% of the country's Internet access infrastructure, with KT Corp accounting for the other 38%. Those densities could actually make the business case for fiber deployment, especially if they can also deliver video services over the same connection to boost revenue. I'm not sure if the smaller players making up the last 12% will go along with this plan or not -- depends on how they can recover their costs.
Verizon, by comparison, is spending $23 billion to roll FiOS and they're only seeing a 25% adoption rate. Still, it was their only real play to keep pace with the triple play offered by the cable MSOs. | |
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