With the exception of one town and one village, high speed Internet access is available everywhere in Taiwan. According to Point-Topic, Taiwan had 4.6 million broadband subscribers at the end of Q3 2007.
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1:12 PM PT
[...] innovation, net neutrality, progressives, web 2.0 [ Comments: none ] GigaOm’s Om Malik points to a story detailing how broadband access is available for practically every city and community in Taiwan. [...]
11:11 PM PT
[...] is everywhere in Taiwan–why not the US? By Martin GigaOm’s Om Malik points to a story detailing how broadband access is available for practically every city and community in [...]
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3:46 AM PT
I wonder if this is a wireless deployment? That is probably the quickest way to deploy. If we take a page out the cellular book, where some countries skipped the landline phase almost completely and went straight to cell, will the same thing happen with broadband?
3:57 AM PT
The article needs paid subscription, couldn’t read, but that is awesome how the whole country has broadband.
6:48 AM PT
Chris, sorry about the paid subscription part. This came off a news alert from Google. Try searching there. There was just two paragraphs. I basically made it even shorter.
4:08 PM PT
I am one of the beneficiaries of Taiwan broadband living here now for 20 years. Most is land line but there are wifi and coming wimax systems.I need to re-evaluate my isp and see which one has the best package for me now.