South Korea Prepares for 10Gbps Broadband; Transfer 1GB File in 0.8 Seconds

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While AT&T and Verizon argue over an FCC proposal that would set 10Mbps as America’s new minimum speed to qualify as “broadband,” South Korea is positioning itself to introduce 10Gbps fiber service.

SK Broadband will introduce its new 10 gigabit per second Internet service at the Oct. 20 Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union to be held at Busan’s BEXCO Center, in partnership with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the National Information Society Agency.

With the latest advances in broadband technology coming mostly from Asian countries like Japan and South Korea, citizens of both countries are proud of the fact they are way ahead of the United States.

“In the 1960s the world watched NASA send men to the moon and many of us grew up amazed at the constant advancements of the Americans,” said Natsuki Kumagai. “Now the Americans watch us.”

“In my travels to the United States, it is very plain they have lost their way in advancing broadband technology,” said Pyon Seo-Ju. “Internet access is terribly slow and expensive because American politicians have sacrificed Americas’s technology leadership to protect conglomerates and allow them to flourish. Although unfortunate for America, this has given Korea a chance to promote our own industry and enhance the success of companies like Samsung that are well-known in the United States today.”

SK Broadband says its 10Gbps will be 100 times faster than Korea’s current average broadband speed of 100Mbps. Downloading a 1GB file takes 80 seconds with Korea’s average broadband connection today. SK’s new 10Gbps service will download the same file in 0.8 seconds.

The broadband company’s booth doesn’t hold back touting its global leadership in broadband, with the slogan “World’s Fastest, World’s First” seen throughout the conference center.

http://stopthecap.com/2014/10/14/south-korea-prepares-10gbps-broadband-transfer-1gb-file-0-8-seconds/

 

 

More hate for American (and or Canadian) interest incoming . . . . . .  Even 1% of that sort of would extraordinary for (North) America.   And yes I did post the entire thing, as it was quite short

[warplane95]

.... meanwhile with my 80/30 internet -___-

[Enderman]

lol not even an SSD can reach those speeds! wth!

[Snickerzz]

.... meanwhile with my 80/30 internet -___-

meanwhile with aussies 3/1

[QueenDemetria]

Meanwhile I get less than 5mbps down and 1 up.

 

@warplane95 try my internet connection lol.

[Rekx]

Scandinavian and South Korea understand how you get people to move to your country. This is freaking amazing.

Also their averages speeds are freaking amazing.

[Brandogg255]

Meanwhile in Australia

[FlashingKool_Z]

YESSSSSSSS FOR ONCE I AM GLAD THAT I LIVE HERE 

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

Meanwhile in Australia

Lucky. I'm on TPG and ~2-5Mbps download and 700kbps up

[XTankSlayerX]

Mean while in Canada wth 50/10

[Guest]

.... meanwhile with my 80/30 internet -___-

Meanwhile with my 20/5 internet -___-

[Revinval]

The FCC should make the term broadband 100/50. That would be the cheapest way for the gov't to push the companies forward. It may do nothing but hey principles or whatever. Or even better tie it to the current standard movie size. 

[Suika]

That's about 10,000 times faster than my net.

Huh.

American corporate leaders need to die and let the more innovative generation take over already.

[Silent_Xaxal]

That's about 10,000 times faster than my net.

Huh.

American corporate leaders need to die and let the more innovative generation take over already.

 

Will only happen when American Political Leaders stop trying to control everything.

 

Meanwhile, I think it's time that my country stopped looking at "American Democracy" as an ideal for making things better. There are so many things better than that.

[Cheeky Leo]

Well, I have 3/0,4 mbps

 

 

sooooo.

[mr moose]

My brother just came back from South Korea, Apparently there is a lot less regulation over there, this allows for more competition and less red tape/bureaucracy holding companies back from installing infrastructure.

 

Maybe someone from SK can comment on how true this is, but it certainly would explain a lot.  Also they have a much denser population which would naturally make it more affordable to roll out fibre.

 

And for the record, Australia's last official Statistic put the average advertised DSL connection speed at between 8Mb/s and 24Mb/s. I believe in reality it is closer to 8 than 24.  The recorded average includes mobile internet which makes up more than half of Australia's broadband connections and brings the average down severely.   Not bad considering we only have 1/10th the population of the US spread out across half its size.

[warplane95]

Mean while in Canada wth 50/10

I am in canada also with Bell (80/30), are you with rogers??

[Misanthrope]

Good for infrastructure but do we have commercial pcs that can write data that fast? Even if ssds approach that what would be the point to fill your storage in 30 seconds?

[WolfDeville]

I'm moving to South Korea, cya guys!!

[Photonic]

Meanwhile i am using 120 Mbps broadband

[Tafel_Kafel]

brb moving to north south korea

[Darkman]

I'll take one!

(I can't add links on mobile so...)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1010915173

[LukeTim]

Isn't 10Gbps the original HDMI standard speed?

That's insane. Theoretically you could connect a device up to a monitor over the internet. The lag would be crazy, but it'd work...

[Kukielka]

1.4/0.6...

[alicskysareblue]

Will only happen when American Political Leaders stop trying to control everything.

 

Meanwhile, I think it's time that my country stopped looking at "American Democracy" as an ideal for making things better. There are so many things better than that.

nope will only happen when lobbiests stop being able to get positions in the goverment.