Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections

ashitaka writes "KDDI has announced that they will be launching a 1Gbps Internet service to single-family home and condo users in October. The service is supposedly synchronous, with 1Gbps in both directions, although the article implies that speeds will vary with location. Cost will be 5,985 yen/month (about US$56.50) for the basic Internet and IP phone service. This is intended to compete with NTT, who currently control over 70% of the Japanese FTTH market."

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Re:Think of the Backbone

[cryptodan]

See you shouldn't be commenting on such issues since its different in your neck of the woods and in your country. I am perfectly happy with using my 16Meg cable, and I do not need blazing fast internet speeds, because I do not use Torrents, I do not watch TV and movies on my computer, all I do is on my computer is casual gaming and web browsing. I dont have any high bandwidth/capacity needs. I get all my TV viewing on my Cable TV with great quality with over 400 channels of content for 80 bucks a month with DVR and HDTV Service. Its a lot cheaper to run fiber in smaller areas then it is to run it cross country at so much a foot. You still do not understand the cost of laying out a fiber network or let alone high capacity lines to give you your 100Meg Synchronized internet connection. I would suggest to you that you become more educated on how much it costs in various regions across the globe to lay out Fiber Connections starting at the OC3 level which is 155Megabits a second or roughly 3 DS3's. You will see that it is quite costly in other markets, and thusly why other markets do not have plans to offer any more bandwidth. I can guarantee that they would have to put in a few more OC192's or greater across the US Along major Interstate highways like I-10, I-5, I-25, I-40, I-95, and the others to provide a lot more bandwidth then what people are getting now.

So who gives a flying fuck that I cannot get an ISO in under a minute, but I can get 4 Gigs in under 4 hours which is fast to me. I don't even use my allocated bandwidth or what I am paying for or even come close to capping it out, so in my opinion, people who want higher bandwidth speeds like you do should pay out more to afford their internet addiction to high bandwidth applications such as torrents and online viewing of television. And they should leave those alone who are content with their 16/3 connection.