South Korea provides high-speed internet access to all citizens

The South Korean government has made it clear that it has begun to provide high-speed internet services to the entire country, providing easy global access to data over the Internet, and the Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology said: High-speed Internet has been classified as a global service that everyone is entitled to have regardless of where he is.

The ministry stated that KT Corp, the country's largest fixed-line operator, has been tasked with providing infrastructure in places that have not benefited from coverage in the past, according to Yonhap News.

The Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology: The move makes South Korea the eighth country in the world that provides high-speed internet service to all citizens, with a transfer speed of 100 megabits per second, which is by far the fastest.

The United States, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, Malta, Croatia and Sweden all provided high-speed Internet service, although the average speed available to the United States is 10 Mbps with many others reaching access speeds of no more than 1 or 2 Mbps.

South Korea, the fourth largest economy in Asia, ranks first among the OECD countries in terms of the penetration of Internet connections via optical fiber cable, however, it started talking about the need to provide comprehensive coverage in 2016.

The country suffers from so-called dead areas, where there are no services, in rural and fishing societies, as well as in isolated homes in mountainous areas, which do not receive support, and in South Korea there are also about 880 thousand old buildings that do not have the infrastructure for high-speed internet .

Hong Jin-bae, general manager of the Ministry's Network and Communications Policy Office, said: The move addresses the issue of so-called dead zones, and effectively ends the data gap that existed between people with the most recent Internet infrastructure and those who do not.

He added that comprehensive service helps the country to push its continuous efforts to take full advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is based on access to communication.