South Korea, Japan lead in broadband quality study
South Korea surpassed Japan and Sweden to take the top spot in an annual ranking of broadband quality, helped by its government's efforts to boost it as an IT world leader, a study showed on Thursday.
The annual study, conducted by the universities of Oxford and Oviedo and sponsored by Cisco, showed that 62 out of the 66 countries had improved the quality of consumer broadband services since last year.
The role of broadband quality is increasing as future Internet applications -- such as high definition Internet TV or high-quality video communications -- need faster and better connections, the study said.
