QUOTE(tympg @ Jun 12 2020, 04:26 PM)
I think we're getting borderline OOT here. First time I was at Incheon airport in 2006 I noticed SK Immigration were singling out all the dark skinned people in the queues including a Thai lady in front of me. They all had to go to a special interview room. Too many people in this forum are putting S Korea on a pedestal. It's not a perfect society. Something to think about before going back to talking about telcos in Telco Talk.
South Korea is actually a proxy and testbed for western companies to penetrate the Far East Asia region. Many of their technology are disguised as home grown but was actually injected in by western country to counter Japan and China.
Without the Western countries turning it into a proxy state to market their technologies into this region, they'll probably be no different than their North Korean cousins today still living in abject poverty.As noticed by many the entire nation economy fate lies on a few "chaebols" corporation which looks artificial.
The only true powerhouses for technology in Far East Asia is probably Japan and Taiwan and now emerging China.Japan actually has many homegrown interesting technology but they'll keep it to themselves and only used for their domestic market.NTT DOCOMO's FOMA was the first WDCMA pre-3G standard before it was standardized as UMTS. Also don't forget they had the PHS network which was unique only in Japan with its packet based i-Mode mobile content service.
Back when every other was still using SMS, Japanese market was already using emails and their PHS network already provided unlimited local calls with reduced call quality at half-rate.
When we was still using dial-up 56k last time billed by the min, they already have 2+1 channel unlimited ISDN, when Malaysia was still selling 2Mbps Streamyx ADSL, they already have ADSL-Q which can reach 2X the speed of ADSL2+ at 50Mbps only unique to their own country based on homegrown tech, not even Singapore had such technology.
Japan has since launched FTTH commercially since end of 2002.In 2005, Japan already launched 1Gbps FTTH service.
Already 15 years since and until now Malaysian network has difficulties going above 800Mbps(0.8Gbps)?