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."

Comments

Hope they start using bittorrent

[ChienAndalu]

I mean, they have to do *something* with the bandwidth

Re:Brilliant!

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

You're right 640 Kbps should be enough for anybody! I'll get off your lawn now.

The reason is obvious.

[Anonymous Coward]

Their appetite for tentacle rape porn is insatiable. I expect we'll see another bandwidth increase in about 6 months. Honestly, how much tentacle rape porn can there be in the world?!?!

Re:Not hard technology; it's the politics

[OriginalArlen]

Americans might want to start getting advice from the British on how you handle it, psychologically, when you wake up a decade or so into a new century and realize that you just aren't the most important nation on Earth anymore

You become terribly bitter and unhappy, but you try really hard not to show it. Then you invent Monty Python.