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Originally Posted by Zaps
While staying in the home of a friend and his wife in Tokyo recently he asked me to take a look at his connection because it had slowed down in the last month.
They have FTTH and it costs them something like AU$20 per month, with no caps.
A speed test result averaged ~50 Mb/s, peaking at over 60 Mb/s!
When I told him that he said, "Yeah, it's terrible, we used to have a fast connection. Do you think you can you fix it?"
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These types of anecdotes are eye-opening but hopefully the FTTH roll-out in Australia
will see these type of services being delivered here in the not-too-distant future.
See
http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/uplo...aper_final.pdf
Like Japan, South Korea also has an enviable communications infrastructure
that was also sponsored through government assistance. Already enjoying the
fastest broadband in the world, recently the South Korean Communications
Commission has pledged to up speeds even further and offer 1Gb/s services
to the home for subscribers in large cities and 50Mb/s to 100Mb/s to subscribers
in smaller towns. At 1Gb/s, one can download a two hour movie in just a few seconds
so these types of speeds will bring about a paradigm shift in how people
communicate. The copper network here is well past its use-by date and the
plan is that it will be decommissioned.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/arti..._decommission/