RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] The Wi-Fi Boom

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Rolling out bandwidth in Japan would be cheaper than in the US I'd think
just because the US is such a damn big place. Really Japanmust be doing
something right though to be able to offer things at that sort of price.
Their wireless usage is impressive to if I understand how things are.
Teenagers all running around with cell phones and two way pagers and
stuff. If I were going to move from the US I'd be tempted to try Japan for
a while. Gotta keep tryingto teach myself the language for now though.:)

> As an aside, I'm in Japan right now and in the past year or two, ADSL has
> really taken off.  What I couldn't believe are the prices and the rates... An
> article in a newspaper said the average monthly charge for an ADSL connection
> recently has fallen to 3000 yen ($24 or so) from 6000 yen.  NTT (big telecom
> co.) this month reduced "the monthly cost of a 12-megabyte-per-second line by
> 500 yen to 2700 yen ($22 or so)..."  WHAT?!  If the article author is right
> (and he mentions megaBYTE a couple of times), these guys are getting the
> equivalent of a 100 mbit/sec connection to their homes!  Is that right?
> What's the max throughput for ADSL?  I've got to talk to my brother-in-law
> (lives here, has ADSL) to see what the scoop really is.
>
> Looks like they're pushing IP telephony also, with the ADSL.  They do have
> cable internet, with prices and speeds similar to our own.  And they are
> planning the rollout of fiber to the residential curb, but that is still some
> years out.
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