Korea to Get 1Gbps Internet Access by 2012

btarunr · Feb 2, 2009

Imagine internet connectivity at 1Gbps, speeds at which a 120 minute SD film gets downloaded in 12 seconds! The Korea Communications Commission is reportedly spending $22 Billion in upgrading its telecommunications infrastructure that facilitates public internet connections with such extremely high bandwidth as 1Gbps for fixed-lines and up to 10 Mbps for wireless connections. Korea plans to to operationalise this by the year 2012, starting with urban centres, mainly large cities with relatively affluent populations. Other places in the country will still get internet access at speeds of up to 100 Mbps.

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btarunr · Feb 2, 2009

Many Thanks to Casitel for sending this in.

newtekie1 · Feb 2, 2009

Nice picture.

RadeonX2 · Feb 2, 2009

w0w, I'm stuck @ 384kbps here in my country :laugh:

W1zzard · Feb 2, 2009

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blobster21 · Feb 2, 2009

Seing as a gigabite lan already max out around 35-40% of it's available bandwith, i'd be curious to see what kind of transfer rate their ISP can manage in a nationwide network of this kind...

iStink · Feb 2, 2009

Wow that's just incredible.

Mega-Japan · Feb 2, 2009

God DAMN. Time to pack up my stuff and move to Korea >_>

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Feb 2, 2009

Looks like their govt is ravenously supporting online games.. them Koreans are aiming for a cyberpunk future.

spearman914 · Feb 2, 2009

Mega-Japan said:
God DAMN. Time to pack up my stuff and move to Korea >_>

No rush, still takes 3 more years.

kwchang007 · Feb 2, 2009

Snap and over here 20 mb/s is fast....when we get that kind of internet movie renting is going to end up dying.

Castiel · Feb 2, 2009

spearman914 said:
No rush, still takes 3 more years.

Well it is already "made/invented" its just in 3 years there upgrading to all of that.

thoughtdisorder · Feb 2, 2009

Wow that is impressive! Is Korea allowed to have weapons of math destruction?

Swansen · Feb 2, 2009

???? is this for north or south korea??? I'd imagine South, as North Korea is a mess, but thats a pretty big distinction being skipped out on. Anyways, there are many more implications than just speedy internet access, this will change lifestyles of a people who are already glued to the internet.

PCpraiser100 · Feb 2, 2009

By the time this happens, Korea can watch Death Race Webcasts :roll:

Triprift · Feb 2, 2009

Damn and here we are in Oz all set to have our net slowed to a crawl thanks to the governments up coming net filter no fair.

Disparia · Feb 3, 2009

Pfffffffffttttttt..... I've had gigabit in my house since 2004! Jizzler > Korea.

ShadowFold · Feb 3, 2009

Now they will be playing Starcraft 2 with 2ms pings :laugh:

"Lagging piece of CRAP!!" "NO YOU!"

tkpenalty · Feb 3, 2009

Jizzler said:
Pfffffffffttttttt..... I've had gigabit in my house since 2004! Jizzler > Korea.

If you haven't realised this is Gigabit over their internet connection, and not gigabit over LAN like you have. Korea basically has the fastest net and an average household computer probably has dual gigabit as standard ... I guess that 100mbit connection that everybody has is too "slow".

Hayder_Master · Feb 3, 2009

hahaha , like mine dumm

Mega-Japan · Feb 3, 2009

tkpenalty said:
If you haven't realised this is Gigabit over their internet connection, and not gigabit over LAN like you have. Korea basically has the fastest net and an average household computer probably has dual gigabit as standard ... I guess that 100mbit connection that everybody has is too "slow".

Word... And do I see Misa? lol

Triprift · Feb 3, 2009

tkpenalty said:
If you haven't realised this is Gigabit over their internet connection, and not gigabit over LAN like you have. Korea basically has the fastest net and an average household computer probably has dual gigabit as standard ... I guess that 100mbit connection that everybody has is too "slow".

Yep sure will be compared to Korea and Japan.

Pinchy · Feb 3, 2009

Triprift said:
Damn and here we are in Oz all set to have our net slowed to a crawl thanks to the governments up coming net filter no fair.

Thats only optional tho, isnt it?

Our net is pretty quick for some plans - ie I am on a 30mbit/1mbit connection, but the download limits suck, ie I only get 12GB/month.

Our govt wants to install fibre optics around the whole country though (~$4 billion). That'll speed up everything but its just a matter of if/when they will do it lol.

leonard_222003 · Feb 3, 2009

American dream just got beaten by the korean dream , i want to live in korea

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Triprift · Feb 3, 2009

I woudnt be banking on it any time soon id say at least a few years down the track.

No we only get the chance to opt out of the mega draconian filter for the semi bad one instead wich is my understanding of it.

And yeah id love ul dl instead of the 25 gig a month i get but what can we do. =/

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