Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

Tue Oct 23 03:28:44 UTC 2007

On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote:

>
> David Andersen wrote:
>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/ 
>> AR2007082801990.html
> <snip>
>> Followed by a recent explosion in fiber-to-the-home buildout by  
>> NTT.  "About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines --  
>> roughly nine times the number in the United States." --  
>> particularly impressive when you count that in per-capita terms.
>> Nice article.  Makes you wish...
>
> For the days when AT&T ran all the phones? I don't think so...

For an environment that encouraged long-term investments with high  
payoff instead of short term profits.

For symmetric 100Mbps residential broadband.

But no - I was as happy as everyone else when the CLECs emerged and  
provided PRI service at 1/3rd the rate of the ILECs, and I really  
don't care to return to the days of having to rent a telephone from  
Ma Bell. :)  But it's not clear that you can't have both, though  
doing it in the US with our vastly larger land area is obviously much  
more difficult.  The same thing happened with the CLECs, really --  
they provided great, advanced service to customers in major  
metropolitan areas where the profits were sweet, and left the  
outlying, low-profit areas to the ILECs.  Universal access is a  
tougher nut to crack.

   -Dave
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