US  White House has authorized $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus bucks. The broadband stimulus has two faces, aptly enough: the National Telecommunications and Information Administration will have $4.7 billion to play with—the bulk of it for grants and loans under a new Broadband Technology Opportunities Program—while another $2.5 billion goes to the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service program. [Ars Technica]

Meanwhile, in UK, Virgin Media will offer 100 to 150Mbps broadband speeds up to two years before BT completes its rival fibre network. BT has said its fibre network will hit the first crop of UK cities by early 2010 and will be complete by 2012. FYI, Virgin currently offers a top speed of 50Mbps while BT is pledging 40 to 60Mb. [BBC]

How about Indonesia? We still trying to make it less expensive, so it can reach more people. In 2008, there were around 25 million internet users in Indonesia. It’s only about 10 percent of the population of Indonesia. [liputan6]

And we only have low speed internet access: Bad Connection! Rp 828.000 / 70 US$ for up to 1 Mbps connection.