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Showing posts with label broadband access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broadband access. Show all posts
Saturday, February 26, 2011

A Note on Broadband Availability in the U.S. (Guam)

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I just returned from a pleasant three night vacation trip to Guam.  The weather was pleasant and the palm-lined beach and warm Pacific water...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Euromonitor on Global Digital Divide: From Korea to Kenya

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The Euromonitor blog has a new report on the global digital divide with the accompanying graphic. (click to see full size version).  The mea...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

Korea Tops new Government Broadband Index Rankings

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The Economist Intelligence Unit has developed a new Government Broadband Index, which shows that Korea ranks number one among the sixteen na...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Yet another Broadband Index: Korea Ranks near the Top on "e-Intensity"

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The Boston Consulting Group was recently commissioned to do a study of the internet economy in the U.K.  In order to measure the reach and ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

"What's Broadband?" Billions in Stimulus Funds are at Stake

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The headline I chose as the title for this post appeared in today's online issue of U.S.A. Today . It offers further proof that, when i...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

The U.S., Korea and Broadband

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Almost on the eve of President Obama's inauguration Business Week has published an interesting article, entitled "Bring U.S. Broad...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Broadband Convergence Update

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The Joongang Daily reports that IPTV operators are "baiting subscribers with cash." With local high-speed Internet service provid...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

95 Percent of Korean Households Have Broadband Internet

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The Korea Communications Commission has announced that, as of the end of July, fully ninety-five percent of the households in South Korea su...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Slow Light to Speed up the Internet?

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I hadn't planned another post on the importance of speed for the internet, but ran across a fascinating article from the BBC (click her...

Speed Matters: The U.S. Lags in Internet Download Speed

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It is not only in Olympic swimming events or track that speed is important.  The new 2008 report, "Speed Matters," a project of t...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Speed in Mobile Broadband Solutions

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I've commented on the importance of speed in internet connections in several prior posts. Now Jeff Orr, a leading industry analyst of m...
Friday, August 8, 2008

The Internet Comes to North Korea!

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According to the Chosun Ilbo and other media sources, North Korea will finally join the world wide web and provide internet service from ne...
Monday, July 28, 2008

World Leadership in Broadband Penetration to Continue

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According to a widely-reported new study by Gartner, South Korea is likely to lead the world in broadband internet penetration for at least...
Friday, June 20, 2008

North Korea the Internet's Biggest Black Hole

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The depth of the digital divide separating North and South Korea is difficult to overstate. The organization "Reporters Without Borde...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Measuring the Information Society: Korea's Broadband Network Ranks Number 1

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A headline in the People's Daily Online caught my attention today. It read "South Korea's Broadband Network Most Developed....
Saturday, March 29, 2008

U.S. Digital Deficiency Jeopardizes "Super Power" Status

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The title of this post is taken from the article just published by Shelley Palmer, and it pretty much says it all. He notes that children bo...