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Japanese broadband prices show up even Sweden

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edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
After we recently reported about a Swedish ISP's offer of a 100Mbit/s broadband service for the equivalent of only £70, it has now also come to light that the Japanese ISP NTT East has in fact been offering a 100Mbit/s bi-directional service at a mere £30 since April. Can't help but see my £24 a month 512/256 Mbit/s service as a little on the pathetic side by comparison.

[blockquote]Neither service has any cap for downloading and while customers have to contract for the service, that is only ¥500 a month.

That makes the whole kit and caboodle so cheap that we can only gasp in envy and admiration.
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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    North American and the rest of the EU is getting ****ed on broadband.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    OMG i can get 2 100mbit/s lines for the price i'm paying right now for my DSL.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect
    moves to Japan

    ohayoo gozaimasu!
     Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    moves to Japan

    ohayoo gozaimasu!
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    ^^ kekekeekeke (insert fat floaty smiley thing here)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2003
    DAMN. My cable bill is going to go up to $80 here soon for cable internet and TV. And its only like 2 Mb down at that.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2003
    primesuspect had this to say
    * primesuspect moves to Japan

    ohayoo gozaimasu!

    There happens to be one o at the end of ohayo (I need to check my Japanese to English dictionarary to be sure

    tadaima!!

    As a member of the military, I can go overseas if I want. If I did I would choose between Osaka and Okinawa, or Kobe
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited December 2003
    Hmm my line 256/128 is getting upgraded to 512/128 sometime before March.
    It is our monopolistic phone company that has decided that they ought to do something before alle their customers flee to other companies.

    It is going to cost approx. £35/$58.

    I would rather have a Japanese broadband line. :banghead:

    Broadband in Denmark is very slow indeed.
    Denmark is supposed to be the country with the most people using broadband.
    If 256/126 or 512/128 even qualitfy as broadband?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Panzer.... hrmph... i mean, Danball:

    True, if you use the hepburn romanization in the most proper sense, but since the word itself is drawn out, with a long "o" at the end, many people choose to romanize it the way I did, to show the emphasis at the end.

    //From a pedantic 3rd year japanese language student ;D , who is obviously not pedantic enough to look at names rather than avatars.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    primesuspect had this to say
    Panzer:

    /me wonders where Prime saw Panzer post and how many hours it is past his bed time now ;)

    I have you all beat - $20 a month for AOL and $20 a month for a phone line... all just for a 56K connection!! w00t!! :rolleyes: I think we just got offered DSL service here for the first time this month. I'll be looking into it after the holiday.


    Fine print: This is just while I'm home and my parents are paying for it anyway.
  • XyphusXyphus South Bend, Indiana
    edited December 2003
    General Keebler had this to say
    primesuspect had this to say
    Panzer:

    * General Keebler wonders where Prime saw Panzer post and how many hours it is past his bed time now ;)

    I have you all beat - $20 a month for AOL and $20 a month for a phone line... all just for a 56K connection!! w00t!! :rolleyes: I think we just got offered DSL service here for the first time this month. I'll be looking into it after the holiday.


    Fine print: This is just while I'm home and my parents are paying for it anyway.

    DSL 256 up / 1.5 down, $29.95 a month... :D

    SBC/Yahoo... Whee... (of course, that price is just for the DSL portion.. it's another $30 for my phone service...)
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    $20 a month for AOL

    AOL ? Beginning to wonder about you, Keebs. :scratch:
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    AOL! did someone say AOL!

    /me fumbles to quickly grab his gun
    Where is da son of a female dog, I'll take 'is head off I will!
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    It must be the 12908310927409174 hours free trial that bought him, that and the hort nerdy woman and her technicoloured spamcoat.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    Enverex had this to say
    It must be the 12908310927409174 hours free trial that bought him, that and the hort nerdy woman and her technicoloured spamcoat.

    ahahahaha! ROFL!;D;D
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2003
    primesuspect had this to say
    Panzer.... hrmph... i mean, Danball:

    True, if you use the hepburn romanization in the most proper sense, but since the word itself is drawn out, with a long "o" at the end, many people choose to romanize it the way I did, to show the emphasis at the end.

    //From a pedantic 3rd year japanese language student ;D , who is obviously not pedantic enough to look at names rather than avatars.

    Yeah, you are right. I am thinking of taking classes to learn Japanese. Watching subtitled anime does cause a learning of very basic Japanese.

    Now get this. My brother uses Earthlink TotalAccess. He can't log in the regular way, so he has to create a seperate network connection so that he can log in (this is what Earthlink's customer service told him to do), however the even more amazing thing is that as good as Earthlink TotalAccess is for dialup, he is still subscribing to AOL, for what he says is "backup" in case Earthlink doesn't work.
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited December 2003
    I used Earthlink Total Access for a long time before I got Earthlink broadband. I've been an Earthlink subscriber for about 6 years now. Haven't had any bad experiences yet.
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