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Kareena Kapoor is perhaps one of the busiest actresses in Bollywood. Because of her business and packed schedule, she denied a lucrative offer approached by a TV channel. She denied the offer to star in her very own show on the small screen titled ‘Main Kareena Kapoor Banna Chahti Hoon’. It is not the first time she has been offered a television show. In the past, she was offered too but she hadn’t bitten the bait.

Bollywood queen is busy with films and endorsements. She has no time for television. Perhaps she will consider television after a year-and-a-half or two.

This year seven of her movies will be released. Now, she is busy with ‘Ra1’ film. After that, she will be working in ‘Golmaal 3’, ‘Agent Vinod’ with Saif Ali Khan. She has been cast along with Madhur Bhandarkar in an untitled film.

Kareena Kapoor would have to travel the whole India to communicate with Bollywood candidates if she had accepted the offer.

Most of the top stars in Bollywood have shifted to small screens. May be, Kareena Kapoor will follow their foot steps.

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It's bad enough the U.S. continues to lag behind many other countries in broadband speed, considering we (though not Al Gore) basically developed it. It's worse when you consider we pay more, and much more in some cases, for that "privilege."

The Akamai report covers the "State of the Internet 3rd Quarter, 2009." In that report, Akamai noted that the following countries are at the top.

1. South Korea 14.6 Mbps, up 29% Q2-Q3, up 16 percent year-over-year
2. Japan 7.9 Mbps, up 8.2 percent Q2-Q3, up 11 percent year-over-year
3. Hong Kong 7.6 Mbps, up 10 percent Q2-Q3, 13 percent year-over-year

Meanwhile, not only is the U.S. in 18th place with 3.9 Mbps, it was up from Q2-Q3 1.8 percent, but down 2.4 percent year-over-year, not a good trend.

It wouldn't be so bad, perhaps, if the United States' slower connections were also cheaper. Not so, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The slower connection here in the U.S. costs about $45.52 per month on average, while in South Korea an average broadband bill runs about $28.52. That means South Koreans pay more than a third less, yet have broadband that's 3.75x faster than the U.S.

Many have pointed to the obvious fact for the reasons that the U.S. pays more and gets less: lack of competition. For most consumers, they can choose only between a cable company and a telephone company (DSL) when they sign up for broadband. In other countries, including South Korea, the list of choices is much higher.

Yochai Benkler, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, said the following in a New York Times op-ed:

Affordability is the hard part — because there is no competition pushing down prices. The plan acknowledges that only 15 percent of homes will have a choice in providers, and then only between Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic network and the local cable company. (AT&T’s “fiber” offering is merely souped-up DSL transmitted partly over its old copper wires, which can’t compete at these higher speeds.) The remaining 85 percent will have no choice at all.

[...] But without a strong commitment to open access, things will get worse. Because of the high price of laying their own next-generation fiber optics, would-be competitors like AT&T and Qwest have largely abandoned their goal of bringing fiber to the home, leaving the highest-speed tiers to the cable companies.