In Japan, a 900 Gigabyte Upload Cap, Downloads Uncapped

Raindeer writes "While the Broadband Bandits of the US are contemplating bandwidth caps between 5 gigabyte and 40 gigabyte per month, the largest telco in Japan has gone ahead and laid down some heavy caps for Japan's broadband addicts. From now on, if you upload more than 30 gigabyte per day, your network connection may be disconnected. Just think of it ... if you're in Japan and want to upload the HD movie you shot of yesterday's wedding, you soon might hit the limit. The downloaders do not face similar problems."

Comments

Seriously?

[deckert_za]

Seriousy?

Is the author bemoaning the 900GB CAP or praising it? Where I live, with a 3GB CAP (in total) per month, I truely admire what they have in Japan. Even with the CAP.

--deckert

Download caps

[tonycheese]

Well, yes, if you're uploading daily 5 hour movies of your wedding in HD, then you'll hit your cap. I'm really not sure why you would be uploading that much in movies in such quality, and certainly don't know why you would be doing that on a daily basis, but yes, if that were the case there would be a problem. For the other 99.999% of us, I think 30 gigabytes in a DAY is more than enough.

Re:might be someting else

[MidnightBrewer]

My ISP in Osaka recently sent me a letter that very specifically said that they neither tracked nor cared about what I did with my connection. There happens to be a twenty-year-old law on the books that prevents carriers from monitoring customers' communications, too.

They did ask that I try not to get caught doing anything illegal. Apparently, the worst that could happen is that I could have my contract terminated and be forced to sign with one of the at least two other fiber internet providers in this area.