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. Source Alternative Source
Actually, bandwidth is cheap there, A friend had been there for work-related training (About a year back) and i remember him telling me that a public 1 MBPS unlimited plan was available for the eqvivalent of 500 INR per month…
WTF. I dunno why that sounds a lot like an OP from the market section thread.
*“Wanted Korean chick, local delivery preffered, shipping is an option too.
I don’t mind picking it up locally. Suitable alternatives/substitutes can be considered” *
Not 2005 but 2008 as per above news. More intresting part is
The traffic speeds will be the fastest in eastern Japan, up drastically from the current 100 megabits per second.
Even during my visit to Japan in 2001, I remember that speed there was more than 2mbps when opening of a web page in India through telephone dial-up was big achievement
india will have 1gb connection somewhere around 2109 
