Government in Singapore and Korea offer large sums of money to private citizens and businesses to pay for broadband equipment and consulting services. In contrast, the spread of broadband is very slow in the United States
What could be the reason for slow movement in the United States?
A broadband communication system is one that has sufficient capacity to carry multiple voice, data, or video channels simultaneously. Bandwidth determines the range of frequencies that can pass through a given transmission channel. For example, traditional telephone networks offered quite limited bandwidth compared with state-of-the art digital telephone networks. Consumer broadband service is typically available from cable TV companies or telephone companies via digital subscriber lines (DSL). In addition to faster download times and greater capacity, broadband offers other advantages. For example, it is always on, and there is no need to access the Internet via phone dial-up service. Roughly one-third of American households currently have high-speed Internet access. Broadband Internet allows users to access streaming audio, streaming video, and streaming media. Although South Korea and Singapore offer businesses grants for broadband equipment and consulting services, the United States is relatively slow to start in having broadband spread broadly. The primary reason is that one-quarter of the United States population lives in rural areas, and thus broadband is more expensive to rollout than in densely populated smaller nations such as South Korea and Singapore. Also, U.S. Telecom companies were reluctant to invest in broadband lines because of concern that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission would force them to lease the lines to rival service providers.
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