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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."
Let's give more bandwidth to ordinary people that run super-secure Operating Systems and will undoubtedly never get any malicious trojans.
Seriously, 1Gbps is so insanely overboard. Many service providers don't even need that much bandwidth. That much can only be used for bad things.
The amusing part about it, is that it will be capped at 30GB transfer a month probably. AWESOME! You can reach your cap for the month in a matter of hours.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
I think I speak for everyone else when I say F*** you Japan! We never liked you anyway!
Americans are jealous, ha-ha! Your pathetic country is dying! Do you think we forgot Hiroshima and Nagasaki??? Keep thinking... Time of our revenge is about to come. The USA are going to pay for all the evil they did around the world...
Shut the fuck up or we'll nuke you again. That non-nuclear policy is a bitch, isn't it?
America is still the most important right now but thanks anyway!
Then upgrade the backbone. Instead of limiting the speed for end users, invest in the backbone and eliminate the clogging. I'm guessing Japan doesn't have that big of a problem with the backbone though. (neither does Sweden it would appear, I can easily reach 100 Mbps if I download directly from someone else on a 100 Mbps connection within Sweden)
Its a lot easier to upgrade infrastructure in a smaller place then it is in a bigger one. Sweden and Japan are small assed nations compared to the USA, so the cost of long haul fiber would be cheaper for those nations, then it would be for the USA.
Do you need a quick physical geography lesson to see this?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_surface_area_of_Japan
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sw.html
http://open-site.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/
Can you afford to help run high capacity and long haul fiber optic cable from Annapolis, Md to San Francisco, Ca so everyone can be all happy and content with their broadband? As well as to connect each and every house hold in the US to be able to use this new High Capacity and long haul fiber back bone network? I dont think you can, so please stop sounding like you are smart, because quite frankly you are not.
1gbps should be enough to copy a file using Window Vista. So long as it's not too big.
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