2 Dec
2004
2 Dec
'04
7:41 a.m.
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:33, Matthew Poole wrote:
What's really disturbing is that when I was in Japan six 1/2 years ago, they were paying more than we were for ISDN. And ISDN here wasn't exactly cheap. So in six years they've managed to come from low 'net usage via dialup and expensive ISDN to affordable, flat-rate 100Mb/s FTTP. We don't even have that in the CBDs of our largest cities!
The wonders of extremely dense population centres in a relatively small country. Nowhere in NZ even begins to approach the number customers per km of fibre of most large Japanese cities. -- Al.