Om Malik, a senior writer with Business 2.0, has an interesting observation:
Business Week in an editorial writes… “The U.S. is becoming something of a broadband backwater, a place where almost no one can do what Kato and millions of other Japanese take for granted. Many Americans may think that the U.S. is making progress because the number of broadband Net links continues to climb, but that misses the bigger picture.”
I agree - and had made a similar argument late last year in a column for CBS Marketwatch, Broadband…what Broadband! The Koreans and Japanese are enjoying a whole new generation of broadband applications including IPTV.
“Broadband is the foundation upon which entire new generations of technology will be built: full-motion video, Web-based medical care, more sophisticated Internet telephoning, and online gaming. Already, companies abroad seem to be using their robust broadband markets to gain an edge on U.S. rivals. Korea’s NCsoft Corp. has come out of nowhere to become a tough contender in multiplayer online games…
