Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections 275
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."
Hope they start using bittorrent (Score:5, Funny)
Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
That makes it much more likely that Japanese slashdot users will get first post!
Re:Brilliant! (Score:5, Funny)
The reason is obvious. (Score:5, Funny)
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:Synchronous? (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's really synchronous. That's how they can afford to do it cheaply. It works like this:
Suppose you want to download a video. For every packet of the video you download, you need to upload one. Now naturally, you can't upload somebody else's copyrighted content. So you have to upload original video content that somebody else wants to watch.
The main sponsors of the rollout are porn companies, because that's the only kind of marketable content most people can create. Some camwhores will probably do all right, too. And if you live in an interesting neighborhood, you can put up some webcams to meet the synchronous data requirement.
Most people, though, won't be able to generate enough content, so they'll have to pay extra to get the synchronous requirement waved. It's sort of like how cellphone companies sell you a cheap plan, knowing they'll screw you on extras.
Re:Brilliant! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not hard technology; it's the politics (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Sweet! (Score:2, Funny)
They have their own slashdot for that.
Ironically, this isn't a front page story on slashdot.jp.
Re:If the island of Japan can do this... (Score:3, Funny)
We do have fiber at work and that's one of the joys of getting in before 8am before anyone else. The speeds I get are enough to make me cum my pants harder than any woman could do for me.