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Japan home owners to be offered 16Gbit/s Internet connection
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By Martyn Williams, IDG news service
Published: 12:37 GMT, 26 September 08
Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI is to start offering 1Gbit/s fibre optic Internet hook-ups for less than the current price of a connection one tenth the speed.
The Hikari One Home Gigabit service will cost ¥5,460 (£28) 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 fibre optic service for such buildings tops out at 100Mbit/s and costs ¥6,615 while the broadly available 10Mbit/s service costs around ¥4,599.
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Japanese Internet users already enjoy some of the fastest and cheapest Internet connections in the world. Aggressive investment by carriers in fiber-optic networks and the country's densely packed cities leave many homes and buildings within easy reach of a fibre optic connection.
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nick | Published: 06:47 GMT, 17 June 2009
Kddi also advertises for adsl 50 MB/s and you get 5. After complaining they say it is not their fault! Be aware of the advertising kddi scams!
marketing scam | Published: 18:22 GMT, 08 May 2009
KDDI may be offering 1gbps internet service, but the PLC modem is limited to 85mbps. The max bandwith you will get for internet (PC, phone and TV combined) is 85mpbs. This is not a dedicated line so the speeds will be even less that that. 100Mbps Hikari (optical) Fiber is only 3,000yen a month. This is a marketing SCAM... be careful to read the marketing material carefully(p.8 on au hikari service guide)
marketing scam | Published: 18:20 GMT, 08 May 2009
KDDI may be offering 1gbps internet service, but the PLC modem is limited to 85mbps. The max bandwith you will get for internet (PC, phone and TV combined) is 85mpbs. This is not a dedicated line so the speeds will be even less that that. 100Mbps Hikari (optical) Fiber is only 3,000yen a month. This is a marketing SCAM... be careful to read the marketing material carefully(p.8 on au hikari service guide)
infamous | Published: 17:18 GMT, 14 October 2008
So is it a 16 Gbit connection or a 1 Gbit connection? "Japan home owners to be offered 16Gbit/s Internet connection" "offering 1Gbit/s fibre optic" "upstream and downstream connection at 1G bps" Your article makes 3 different statements.
Wonderer | Published: 14:45 GMT, 29 September 2008
And to think I was pleased when my home ISP upgraded to 10 MBps last week. But isn't there a bit of an error in the headline?
Avle | Published: 06:08 GMT, 29 September 2008
Japanese people are so lucky! I wonder when will other countries be able to offer a service like that. Can't even imagine how fast UL/DLs will be.
Amarnath K Habib | Published: 17:44 GMT, 28 September 2008
This is really amaging.. Me, being in India, currently enjoying the 2Mbit/s connection . I am sure, in India also we will hae this kind of high speed internet connection.