more on Why the future is in South Korea

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bruce Kushnick <bruce () newnetworks com>
Date: June 11, 2006 11:14:05 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] more on Why the future is in South Korea

Subject: RE: [IP] Why the future is in South Korea

> In 1990 Korea Telecom initiated a network study, KT 2000, to take
> Their network to world class in the year 2000.  I was engaged as a
> consultant,
> And suggested the following: South Korea has 80% of its population in
> Seoul and five other cities, so deploy optical fiber rings into  
> each city,
> And trunk them together to provide high speed digital transport for  
> the
> chaebol.  Once that is done, the rings can sprout new optical fiber
> tenacles:

The exact same type of study was done by Deloitte & Touche for the Bell
companies --- though instead of phone based it was 'state-based'.
Opportunity New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio all  
used
the same $1 million cookie-cutter study... also with revenue  and cost
models and all showing how fiber optic services would dramatically  
change
America's economic growth, --- Tele-Learning, Tele-conferencing,
Tele-anything you want.

This same type of study was also done by other Bell groups ----

The primary difference -- once the laws were changed in favor of the  
Bell
companies, they took the money and ran... Virtually no PUC ever held the
companies accountable for the extra cash and tax breaks.  
Pennsylvania's PUC
tried in 2000 but was shot down, and the Ratepayer Advocate of NJ  
wrote a
scathing review in 1997 --- didn't matter.  (I believe Indiana is the  
only
state that got real concessions for some of the problems.)

Well documented,  ---According to the New Jersey state order, signed in
1993, that granted the phone companies large sums of customers' money  
for
upgrading the state with fiber, by 2010 the ENTIRE state is supposed  
to have
been upgraded with 45mbps services, capable of high definition video, as
well as open to competitors and ubiquitously deployed.

Here's the actual info from the New Jersey Order, created in 1993. This
"Order", including this timeline and commitments is still on the books.
http://www.newnetworks.com/OpportunityNewJerseyFiber.htm


here's California's timeline for 5.5 million homes by 2000
http://www.newnetworks.com/cabroadbandpacbell.htm

We wouldn't be 16th in Broadband had the states enforced the laws and  
the
FCC analysis/reports actually examined the funding issues. (it left out
every state commitment in their reports for Section 706.

Here's a summary of the FCC's data problems.
http://www.newnetworks.com/TeletruthBroadbandDQAmartin.htm


Bruce Kushnick
$200 billion broadband scandal
http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm





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