South Korea has been promising that by the end of 2012 it will have every household with an average speed 100x that of the US household.

I discussed this and the important historical context (in 1960 S. Korea had a lower GDP than the Democratic Republic of Congo) in an essay on Washington’s Innovation problem, which you can see here:

On the Innovation of DC: Washington’s Witching Word in Century 21

Korea’s High-Speed Internet Access Passes 100% Penetration.