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Originally Posted by reliable
Ok remember my earlier post about the lucky Grandma with Gigabit Internet in her house, this story is much more annoying unless of course you live in Japan.
It seems Japan has the lead for giving their Internet users what everyone wants. High speed connectivity for the masses.
Here's a annoying excerpt:
"The speed advantage allows the Japanese to watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the Internet, an experience that mocks the grainy, wallet-size images Americans endure."
NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp) now offers speeds on fiber of up to 100 megabits per second -- 17 times as fast as the top speed generally available from U.S. cable. About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines -- roughly nine times the number in the United States.
Original Article Here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...rss_technology |
And I'm willing to bet most of those homes are in the densely populated city areas, where laying some extra fiber to a house is as easy as running it through an existing pipe.
Whereas if you look at other world countries, we tend to have our populations more spread out, which means that laying fiber to more homes becomes vastly financially unfeasible.