South Korea to have 1Gbps speeds in 2012

korea-map Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

Whilst Lord Carter, Ofcom and the Big 6 ISPs over here are busy wringing their hands over exactly how we’re going to get a minimum 2Mbps downstream, to every UK home in time for the Olympics, internet users in South Korea can instead look forwards to the prospect of enjoying download AND upload speeds approaching 1Gbps.

Yes, that’s 1 Gigabit per second.

The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) is currently working with industry figures in the Land of the Morning Calm, in order to work out an investment program which will see these plans for ultra-fast access a reality.

The current plan is reportedly due cost the equivalent of £16 billion, and, like the current Digital Britain broadband roadmap, will deliver faster speeds to homes by using a combination of wired fibre optic cable and wireless connections. What’s more is that the new infrastructure will cover the entire country, and not just cater for specific regions with a large population density.

The KCC say that the upgrades, due to start in 2012 and be fully rolled out by 2013, will make it possible for users to download an entire movie in just a matter of seconds.

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