Amazon.com description: Product Description: It is clear that many questions can be raised with regard to broadband. This issue of Trends in Communication discusses some of them from several different perspectives. The issue begins with a discussion on the adoption of broadband in the United States and Korea by looking into technological, policy, and cultural factors. The second article discusses the Singapore city-state policy with regard to broadband as the most recent step in policy toward an intelligent island and a knowledge-intensive society. The next example describes the diffusion of broadband in Japan, as well as the diffusion on mobile broadband--Internet via telephone, third generation mobile, and WLAN initiatives. In addition, the specific role of the PC-Bang in Korea and the PC-Bang culture--raising the issue of possible negative effects of Internet games via broadband--are discussed. Finally, some critical questions are raised with regard to the consequences of unequal adoption of broadband.