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Content producing countries' Internet speed lags behind technology producers

article published on 21 September, 2011

According to a report from content delivery company Pando Networks, South Korea has the fastest Internet speeds in the world with an average download speed of over 17 Megabits per second. By comparison, German speeds were barely above 5Mbps, which was still better than the US or UK. Those countries had average speeds of 4.93Mbps and 4.79Mbps respectively. The report is based on data ... [ read the full article ]

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leglessoz
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_ 		24. September 2011 @ 14:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Countries like Sth Korea don't have the geographical problems of getting fast internet to the whole country as places like Australia face. Our land mass is huge but mostly arid while our population is relatively small.
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tbag05
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_ 		26. September 2011 @ 07:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by leglessoz:
 Countries like Sth Korea don't have the geographical problems of getting fast internet to the whole country as places like Australia face. Our land mass is huge but mostly arid while our population is relatively small.
my counter argument to that is that we (Australia) have one of the greatest rates of urbanisation, I assume is your premise is beacause we are spread out it is therefore more expensive to get fast internet to a vast majority of our people.
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leglessoz
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_ 		27. September 2011 @ 09:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Also while we have a lot of very smart people here, Sth Korea has companies like Samsumg that actually make a lot of the equipment necessary for high speed internet. We may be a very urban society but the infrastructure costs are sill massive. When a government tries to do something about it and provide an NBN, idiots like the current opposition try to get in the way. Nothing ever gets done because our pollies are constantly bickering and the rest of the world just laughs. In spite of this we still have better broadband services generally than many other developed countries but hey could be so much better and cheaper. That is one of the things that Sth Korea offers in spades.
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