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Submitted: October 18, 2010 - 8:46am
Last updated: October 18, 2010 - 8:47am
Last updated: October 18, 2010 - 8:47am
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BBC
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Alex Hudson Richard Taylor
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Seoul, South Korea
South Korea has devised a national plan for 1,000Mbps connections to be commonplace by 2012. The government is encouraging enterprise to spend the 34 trillion Won (£19bn), required to complete the scheme. By way of a comparison, that figure is roughly the same as the nation's annual education budget. But what can a 1,000Mbps super-fast connection be used for? Firstly, it is about speed - Hollywood blockbusters can be downloaded in 12 seconds. And one thing that is becoming increasingly common is streaming television.
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