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I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea’s 4G, and paid $48

• Nadya 11y ago
  >This is Hongdae. Yes, looks like Japan, don’t say that to a Korean, they will kill you. I was scrolling down a bit too quickly and actually thought that was a street in Japan until I saw the hangul. I laughed when I read the comment about the image. Korean and Japanese internet is amazing compared to the US. Being smaller countries, the infrastructure for upgrades is a lot easier to roll out. Imagine rolling out to California or even just New York and then consider for it to work optimally it needs to be rolled out across the entire backbone of the network across the nation - and jump through a bunch of regulatory hoops to get it there. I'm not sure about Korea, but Japanese internet is largely self-regulated while the US has the FCC and, I believe, other bodies that can sometimes get in the way...
• flashman 11y ago
  > What about just going wireless guys/girls? It’s silly we’re still trying to push so much traffic over old wires. Because spectrum gets crowded faster than fibre.