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Son said Japan has adapted more rapidly because it can offer more bandwidth capacity and lower prices. ... He blames the U.S. regulatory climate for stunting broadband growth, which is just now picking up.
I have a 100mbps fiber optic line going into my home for roughly $45/month.
I am in Australia and pay $70Aus (approx $50US) for a 256/128K connection.
That is unlimited with Static IP.
But the biggest problem - at least here in Australia - is the price of the handsets. They are simply too expensive.
I worked on a pilot with a company who was lucky enough to have all their routers, switches and PABX come off lease within 4 weeks of each other. It was more cost effective for them to do VOIP and IP telephony (between 7 different branch offices) than to get a new PABX.
The biggest cost of the entire project, was buying the 700 phones they needed.
I have a 100mbps fiber optic line going into my home for roughly $45/month.
I THINK I got ya beat bill. :p I'll go check, but I know I at least get the same-ish here. ^^
PLUS we get high-speed wireless service for like $25ish additional a month.
weeeeeeeeeeee! :D
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WHEW! BACK! What up WebmasterWorlders! :D
had a long break and TONS going ons in KOREA again....... updates soon (unless someone beats me to it! ^^)
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I THINK I got ya beat bill. :pNo way...I'm the fastest guy on WebmasterWorld ;) Seriously though I thought that was about the fastest you could get from a commercial ISP anywhere. Please report back about that.
*sighs fondly*
I remember those days. Cept I lived very close to campus and would simply go in late at night and utlize all the available bandwidth.
Now I actually have to pay for it - well at least expense it back! ;-)
It looks like there is a new DSL on the horizon called Uni-DSL, or UDSL that will have speeds up to 200 mbps. Texas Instruments just announced this yesterday, but I'm not sure when it would actually become available and where.
yikes! that is awesome!
<<< mouth watering. :P
Anyway, "only" tied your your speed ... but I got ya on price!:
100mbps at about $25-$20ish US/month depending on term. Modem rental is an extra $8ish-$0! depending on term.
weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I'll check about wireless speeds price...but it ain't too bad either. :)
I was watching the BBC last night (or was it CNN) and they had a report saying that the cheapest broadband in the world is to be had in China. Now, I find this hard to believe as my company was setting up some new offices in China and the prices offered didn't seem all that cheap. China certainly has one of the highest adoption rates for the Internet in Asia, but that's because they were behind to begin with. I'm wondering about the verity of that broadband price statement.
alright, you got me on price...
I was watching the BBC last night (or was it CNN) and they had a report saying that the cheapest broadband in the world is to be had in China. Now, I find this hard to believe as my company was setting up some new offices in China and the prices offered didn't seem all that cheap. China certainly has one of the highest adoption rates for the Internet in Asia, but that's because they were behind to begin with. I'm wondering about the verity of that broadband price statement.
I think you're right to question it unless it was to be had be "less than scrupulous" methods. what do BBC CNN really know about that stuff anyway? I mean I am hard pressed to believe they checked every country (through asia and elsewhere and compared broadband price by mbps?...bah! probably, just a report of a report of some chinese guy on a forum saying "I got broadband for a buck!" somewhere.
ahem.
lol ;) :P
The taxes you actually see on your bill are nothing compared to what the cable/telco companies are paying that you never see - that part is worked into the price.
broadband is cheaper everywhere outside of the U.S. because those countries don't TAX THE F OUT OF ITThat's what Mr. Son was saying in the article I first referenced ;) Everybody has a finger in the pie over there it seems. In this case a little socialism can be good.
I suspect it's mega-contented?
Higher demand for bandwidth = everyone getting less of itI'm not sure that's it. I know there is a ton of unlit fiber lying underground in the US. The infrastructure is there in the metropolitan areas, but it's not being utilized. There's something else going on that's stopping broadband in the US.
Japan has about half the population size of the US, but everyone is squished into a country the size of California. I don't think there are necessarliy just more computers in the US. It's the proximity of the population that allows different technology to be implemented.
know people in Japan on these silly speed connections...I run VoIP and streaming media on my silly speed FTTH connection and have no complaints. I've heard that some of the ADSL connections have issues due to the infrastructure. Your physical distance from the switch has some bearing.
