Boseong-gun Advances High-Speed Internet Network Upgrades for Rural Farming and Fishing Areas

Fiber Optic Cable Infrastructure to Be Established This Year in Remote Mountainous Areas

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] Although contactless culture is spreading due to COVID-19, the high-speed network advancement project is urgently needed first in rural fishing villages lacking industrial infrastructure.

On the 17th, Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it plans to complete the rural high-speed network advancement project by the end of the year in rural fishing villages where non-face-to-face online services such as remote classes, video conferences, and CCTV remote video surveillance are desperately needed.

The rural high-speed network advancement project is led by the Ministry of Science and ICT under the Korean New Deal comprehensive plan, and Boseong-gun in Jeollanam-do is the first to promote the project.

Once the project is completed, villages currently operating at speeds below a maximum of 50Mbps will be able to receive services at speeds up to 1Gbps, about 20 times faster, depending on the monthly usage fee.

Last year, when the Ministry of Science and ICT designated high-speed internet as a universal service, telecommunications companies must provide high-speed internet if residents request it. However, in remote and mountainous areas where telecommunication poles are not installed, subscribers and telecom companies must share installation costs, which burdens residents.

To resolve this inconvenience, the county is conducting this project as a matching fund (1:1:3) among the Ministry of Science and ICT, Jeollanam-do (Boseong-gun), and KT Corporation, so that if a detached house far from the village wishes to subscribe to the internet, it will be reflected in this project without incurring separate construction costs.

Through this, the long-standing civil complaints, which had been hesitant to use the internet due to installation costs, are expected to be resolved at once.

Boseong-gun expects about 77 villages and over 200 detached houses to benefit from high-speed internet through this project.

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