Asian broadband development outpaces USA

From Foreign Affairs’ Down to the Wire:

Once a leader in Internet innovation, the United States has fallen far behind Japan and other Asian states in deploying broadband and the latest mobile-phone technology. This lag will cost it dearly.

No big surprise here. Japan is moving ahead of the US in broadband deployment. However, Japan had better learn from its Korean neighbors, who deployed broadband like crazy, if the graph is true to life. However, they overextended and many of the Korean telcos are now reorganized under bankruptcy.