Comments on: Lessons From South Korea's Broadband Buildout for a U.S. Smart Grid Rollout http://gigaom.com/cleantech/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-rollout/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:27:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Get Ready for the South Korean Smart Grid Firms http://gigaom.com/cleantech/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-rollout/#comment-23832 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:01:47 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34263#comment-23832 [...] its world-leading mobile and web industries. South Korea’s broadband buildout may hold some interesting lessons for the U.S. smart grid rollout, as I’ve noted before. But the country could also take a [...]

]]> By: Digital infrastructure: Ireland's next Ardnacrusha opportunity - Page 2 - Politics.ie http://gigaom.com/cleantech/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-rollout/#comment-23831 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:03:16 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34263#comment-23831 [...] barrier to new companies coming here. There are plenty of choices. You only have to look at the ubiquitous broadband in South Korea to see that it offers many advantages though. [...]

]]> By: Chinui Kim http://gigaom.com/cleantech/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-rollout/#comment-23830 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:13:33 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34263#comment-23830 WiBro is widening its market share by new marketing campaign which combines broadband, iptv, mobile, landline as a package so that people can be connected everywhere they go.

DMB? Try to come to Korea and ride any type of public transportation, you can easily find people watching TV in their mobile phones or PMPs and even navigation device in a car.

Come and see.

]]> By: Lessons From South Korea’s Broadband Buildout for a U.S. Smart Grid Rollout « SmartGrid Current http://gigaom.com/cleantech/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-rollout/#comment-23829 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:40:32 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34263#comment-23829 [...] Lessons From South Korea’s Broadband Buildout for a U.S. Smart Grid Rollout Posted June 16, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | http://earth2tech.com/2009/06/15/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-r... [...]

]]> By: Katie Fehrenbacher http://gigaom.com/cleantech/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-rollout/#comment-23828 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:01:30 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34263#comment-23828 Thanks Sam, good points. It would be interesting to look at why specifically WiBro and DMB havent (yet?) been successful and perhaps there’s also lessons there for a smart grid infrastructure rollout.

]]> By: Sam Jaffe http://gigaom.com/cleantech/lessons-from-south-koreas-broadband-buildout-for-a-u-s-smart-grid-rollout/#comment-23827 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:19:59 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34263#comment-23827 Before we go asking South Korea for advice on how to do a technology rollout, let’s look more closely at what they’ve done since the broadband rollout of the late 1990′s. They tried to do the same thing with WiBro–an only in Korea wireless broadband standard that has been an overwhelming flop. It’s rarely used in Korea and no other countries have adopted the standard. Then they spent billions on rolling out digital mobile broadband (DMB), otherwise known as “television for your cellphone”. That has flopped too–only a few thousand people are willing to pay to watch TV on their handsets. The broadband rollout was a case of all the stars aligning–it worked once and worked spectacularly well. It shouldn’t be used as a model for anything, anywhere. It requires, in teh best case, government bureaucrats picking winning technologies. In the worst case, politicians do the picking. Either way, it takes away from the market’s ability to choose.

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