I am afraid to say that this report is completely wrong on about everything. The intuitively obvious thing is the US is far richer than Korea, so it should afford more broadband connections. Urbanicity (living in apartment buildings vs. living in suburban single-family homes) is important, but not so much. Price and income per capita explains the divergences much better; that means: 1) if US were just as rich as Korea, it would have Third World infrastructure (while Korea has world-class digital infrastructure); 2) price is dependent on national subsidies, unbundling and competition: policy factors, while in this report price is considered an “environmental” factor.

By the way, they say “unbundling” doesn’t work because it didn’t work in Spain. Everybody (well, at least every Spaniard) knows there was not enough competition in the Spanish market until very recently; in fact, the incumbent operator has been fined because there was not enough “unbundling”.

Just don’t read it.