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condoghost
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Reg'd: Mon
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Japan: ADSL is a firmly established technology, with the locally owned arm of Yahoo, called Yahoo BB, the market-leading net service provider.
This summer, Yahoo BB signed up its three millionth customer for services running at 8Mbps and 12Mbps.
This success was almost entirely down to the aggressive marketing masterminded by parent company Softbank's CEO Masayoshi Son.
For the last year, it has been nigh on impossible to take a stroll in the capital without being asked, "Yahoo BB wa ikaga desu ka? (How about Yahoo BB?)," by one of Mr Son's army of street salespeople ready to sign you up and send you on your way with an ADSL modem in a bag.
According to the IEEE, you could get over 50Mbps, theoretically, if your loop is less than one kilometre. In Japan, NTT has put a fibre feeder point within a kilometre of 80% of locations
Now, with the latest tranche of upgrades taking the maximum download speed to a blazing 26Mbps - remember, this is still over standard telephone lines, just like in the UK - one can be forgiven for wondering why BT and its competitors are languishing in the slow lane
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condoghost
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Reg'd: Mon
Posts: 66
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Sorry - I forgot the important bit ...
Japanese surfers clearly have a good deal. Yahoo BB's 26Mbps package costs just 3,838 yen, or about £20 per month, which is around £10 cheaper than the new BT deal for 1Mbps !!!
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bricat
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Reg'd: Wed
Posts: 28620
Loc: belfast
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what else did you expect in rip off Britain, you didn't expect them to give us a fair deal did you. tut, tut,
If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? running xp,256Mb
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timbaker1964
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Reg'd: Sat
Posts: 372
Loc: Herts
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But would we still be capped to a 1Gb download a day ??????
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Spitoon
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Reg'd: Sun
Posts: 144
Loc: South Yorkshire
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Only if you go with BT Broadband or NTL (though NTL say now they don't really enforce it), almost all the other ISP's don't have these caps.
Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations
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