-The driving force in Asia Pacific is Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore," telecommunications analyst Paul Budde told ZDNet Australia. -All these countries have well above 10 percent penetration [of broadband] in Internet households, Australia and New Zealand have two percent, so we don't even appear as a blip on the radar."
The RHK report focuses on South Korea, Japan and Taiwan as the driving forces in the region for broadband uptake, and predicts they will lead regional growth in 2002.
-The Asia Pacific region has quickly become a petri dish for the world to study and learn how DSL can be deployed quickly and successfully," Ken Twist, RHK director of broadband access networks, global, said in a statement.
Government sponsored initiatives are given as one of the major reasons for strong broadband uptake in the countries praised in the report, however, Budde feels the Australian government's initiatives will take longer to affect the market.
-Australia only took the initiative in February. That is a very recent development and it takes a year before we see an affect. Some of the other countries started in 98-99, so we are not just months behind, we're years behind," he said.
According to Budde, there are three levels of dynamics -- government initiative, competition and competing platforms. "We don't have any of the three dynamics [that are] pushing broadband in other countries," he said.
Yep, thats where a short sited binary opposed system of government will get you. Last.