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Japan's KDDI to Offer 1G Bps Internet Connections to Homes [pcworld.com]Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI will start offering from October 1G bps (bits per second) fiber-optic Internet hook-ups for less than the current price of a connection one tenth the speed, it said this week.
The Hikari One Home Gigabit service will cost ¥5,460 (US$51.40) per month and provide an upstream and downstream connection at 1G bps. Internet-based telephone service and cable TV service can be added to the connection for an additional fee.
It will be available to single-dwelling homes and apartment buildings up to three floors high in the Tokyo area and Hokkaido island in north Japan. KDDI's current fiber-optic service for such buildings tops out at 100M bps and costs ¥6,615 while the broadly available 10M bps DSL (digital subscriber line) service costs around ¥4,599.
I know that we've talked about 1 gbps broadband in Japan [webmasterworld.com] before. However, there have been issues of lines being contended with other subscribers. This KDDI offer is claiming true one gigabit speed, both up- and down-stream.
Something like this could seriously make me consider moving to Japan.
In Thailand, I pay almost that for a very slow and unreliable 5 MBps and it is shared meaning I never get that at all. Plus it is only officially the download uploads are still in the KBps.
Japan, great food, amazing women, and seriously crazy internet speeds. A dream place.
The grass is always greener on the oposite side of the fence. I know a lot of people living in Japan that dream about Thiland.
