The Internet has a higher status for many Koreans than it does in the West, and the government actively supports this. According to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation South Korea's internet is the most developed in the world. Particularly Seoul, the nation's capital, has been called "the bandwidth capital of the world" In January 2006, it became the first country to achieve over 50% broadband penetration per capita. By 2005, it was the first country to complete the conversion from dial-up to broadband. It also has the cheapest, fastest broadband in the world. Now there are experiments with speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. Additionally, in 2005 96.8% of South Korean mobile phones had Internet access.