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Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections

Posted by timothy on from the yes-but-food-is-cheaper-elsewhere dept.

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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  1. Re:If you can afford a single-family home in Tokyo by calidoscope · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Japan was working on using biological weapons in 1944 to repel the invasion of Saipan and retaking of Guam. Japan was also making preparations to use radiological weapons in 1945. Fortunately for Japan, the submarines carrying the materials were sunk en-route, as the retaliation for the attacks (especially the bio-warfare) would have been massive.

    And you seem to be forgetting about Nanjing (Nanking).

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  2. Re:If you can afford a single-family home in Tokyo by mweather · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Fortunately for Japan, the submarines carrying the materials were sunk en-route, as the retaliation for the attacks (especially the bio-warfare) would have been massive." You mean worse than having their cities relentlessly firebombed, then using the world's entire supply of U-238 and Plutonium to vaporize two cities?

  3. Re:If you can afford a single-family home in Tokyo by freedom_india · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If japan had used those to retake saipan and Guam, they probably would not have succeeded. Because while the land troops would have been mauled, the ships would have pummeled the japs who tried to retake them.
    Plus, Truman would have probably dropped both of the Big Boys on Tokyo, ending their emperor's reign in a blinding flash of light one wonderful morning.

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  4. Re:If you can afford a single-family home in Tokyo by Saffaya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How is that any worse than the destruction of some german cities by allied bombers in WWII ?

    You should really take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
    and educate yourself some more about the destruction waged on germany during that time.

  5. Re:If you can afford a single-family home in Tokyo by kill-1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, there were more people killed in Hiroshima (140,000) and Nagasaki (80,000) than in Dresden (24,000 - 40,000).