SKorea to build top-speed information highway

"South Korea will be the first in the world to build such a network nationwide for commercial use,"

Hong Kong also has a that

JayVenter.. Hong Kong is a city and so it does not constitute a "nationwide" network.

How does Rha figure that you can download a feature film in one or two seconds at 1 Gigabit per second (I do believe that is what 1 Gbps means, right?) My experience is that a video that is, say, 120 minutes long, even in MPEG-2 format, is going to be in the range of several GigBYTEs (a Gigabyte is 8 Gigabits, assuming no parity). So I would think that even at 100% duty cycle (which is pretty much impossible to achieve) it would take no less than 10 or 15 seconds, probably more like a minute. Am I missing something?

1 gigabyte equals a 2 hour avi file of almost any standard definition tv program

JayVenter.. Hong Kong is a city and so it does not constitute a "nationwide" network.

Hong Kong is not just a city. as a special administrative region of china, its closer to a country on its own. regardless of the fact that it has only one major city in its national borders.
and i should know, since i live here.

1 gigabyte equals a 2 hour avi file of almost any standard definition tv program

it should then still take AT LEAST 8 seconds to download 1 gigabyte if you have a 1Gbps connection.

Precisely my point...and with other traffic and packet overhead, I'm guessing at least 2 or 3 times that long...

Jay:: truth. the person writing this article knows not what the 'gigabit' and 'gigabyte' differences are, apparently.