Folks for £30 or approx $55 In Japan you get a 1gb broadband line, are we now waking up to the biggest rip off in history ?
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/29/japanese-offer-gigabit-perIf you ever get tired of the 8Mbps broadband connection offered in most of the UK you might want to consider a shift to the Land of the Rising Sun.
Cable outfit KDDI has just launched a fibre-optic communications service with upload and download speeds each of up to one gigabit per second.
The service will target people living in single-family homes and low-rise flats. Japanese broadband speeds are famously fast with 100 megabits per second being the norm.
The new service is a bit of a catch-up for KDDI which is behind Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, which has a share of over 70 per cent in the market for fiber-optic broadband services for single-family houses.
KDDI will charge 5,985 yen (or 30 of your British pounds) in basic monthly fees for Internet and telephone services
This once gains makes it pretty clear the direction we should all be heading, fibre and plenty of it
Currently we see a lot of money spent on utilising old and in some cases poor quality copper lines to cut the costs of providing any real infrastructural costs to most of the major ISP companies, for years they have been raking in the readies and making a tidy sum on their pre-existing infrastructure, is now not the time to use some of that revenue to upgrade seriously into the future ?
The alternative is to stagnate innovation and frustrate consumer demand, we are after all seeing a mass of unnecessary actions such as throttling and other consumer victimising tricks used by ISP companies to avoid investing in the future, next time you need to complain to your iSP let them know they are providing a fourth rate service at an expensive price and point them to this article, we may only be "the consumer" but it really doesnt mean we are stupid.
