here are the five potential reasons U.S. Internet speeds are slower and more expensive than those in South Korea.
Countries with fast, cheap Internet connections tend to have more competition.
While there isn't good data on how many broadband carriers the average consumer has access to, "I think we can infer that South Korea has more [competition in broadband] than the United States," Faris said.
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So much for that theory. They admit they have NO proof.
The South Korean government has encouraged its citizens to get computers and to hook up to high-speed Internet connections by subsidizing the price of connections for low-income and traditionally unconnected people.
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So S.Korea subsidizes broadband with taxes - big surprise!!
South Korea and Japan and several European countries, have experimented with or embraced infrastructure-sharing
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Shared infrastructure is good they say and S.Korea has experimented with it. But no facts on how much is shared.
South Korea, with more than 1,200 people per square mile, is a lot denser than the United States, where 88 people live in the same amount of space
It costs less to set up Internet infrastructure in a tightly populated place filled with high-rise-apartments, such as South Korea, than it does in the United States, where rural homes can be great distances apart. Data can travel fast on copper wire, but it slows down the farther it goes. In South Korea, that's usually just from the base of an apartment building to a particular unit. In the U.S., copper wire may have to link a home with a fiber optic cable that's a mile away.
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Well duh! This is obvious. But people who compare US & S.Korea pooh pooh this fact.
"A big difference is that Korea made a decisive move to expand Internet in the country," he said. "They said we want to be very good at connecting to the Internet.
A lot of government money was thrown at it ...
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Well Korea had a plan. But that plan was for the taxpayers to pick up the cost.
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