"South Korea is embarking on a huge project to make its national broadband network even faster spending £1.06bn to upgrade their network."

Very aggressive, apparently they forced schools to use the net more.

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Other title(s) for this story: Korea plans ultra fast broadband

The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) found that UK productivity could rise by 2.5 per cent by 2015 - the equivalent of workers toiling for an extra hour each week.

Not only would people benefit, CEBR reckons that government borrowing would be down by £13 billion by 2015 through lower public sector spending and extra tax revenues from a faster growing economy.

The magic bullet? Bollocks! Broadband is simply the means to the end. It's how people use broadband that really counts. Whether they use the internet or let it lie, getting dusty in the corner. Sure it's more fun, fast.

And looking a dozen years into the future, it'll be the way people share, communicate and mingle, that really counts, not forgetting by then, we'll all be on broadband on our phones too.

[Later:] I take it back. Looking at the speeds they're offering in Japan now 26Mbps and only at £20 a month. This really makes my proud 2Mbps pipe look anemic.

If we were all on that type of speed here in the UK, then surely we would be hitting those targets mentioned above. Think of those video conf calls. Web sevices, like I can only dream of. Many, many more web shoppers... Like it says on the BBC article, "a utility like gas or water that is simply there." And, "it seems clear that speed - or the lack of it - as a restraining factor is but a dim memory, and rather it is what you can do that matters."

Bring it on!

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Other title(s) for this story: Competitive broadband could add £22bn to UK economy

"in 2008: Scandinavia and the Netherlands will dominate the ratings (40%+); German-speaking Europe, Belgium, Finland, and the UK will form a second tier (30-25%); and Southern Europe and Ireland will continue to lag. "

South Korea: " The Korean government plans to spend over US$10bn to deliver VDSL or fibre to over 80% of the Korean population by the end of 2005"

VDSL goes up to 54Mbps. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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Other title(s) for this story: Forrester names Europe's lower tier broadband nations