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

Tue Oct 23 06:52:04 UTC 2007

On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Dragos Ruiu wrote:

>
> On Monday 22 October 2007 19:20, David Andersen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Recent?
>
> NTT started building the FTC buildout in the mid-90s. At least that's
> when the plans were first discussed.  They took a bold leap back when
> most people were waffling about WANs and Bellcore was saying
> SMDS was going to be the way of the future. Now they reap the
> benefits, while some of us are left behind in the bandwidth ghettos
> of North America. :-(

Actually rollout didn't begin until 2002.

TV

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> --dr
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