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I hate BT, but with the midband services ready to go I was prepred to give them a little more slack. Then you read something like this...
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"ADSL is available to 95% of Japanese homes, and FTTH available to
("only") 64%! Many if not most ADSL homes enjoy 12 Mbps service, and
24 Mbps service will become a reality in 2003. And 100 Mbps FTTH
service currently costs JPY5400 per month (USD$45) and friends tell me
that will drop by almost 20% next month. It's very cool to see
billboards on Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama-Dori advertising NTT's 100
Mbps broadband service next to ads for cosmetics and couture. By the
way, this survey piece implies that cable modem service has been left
in the dust by both Fiber and DSL."
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Yes, that is 100 Mbps. For $45/£29 a month. For £2 a month less BT will provide a fraction of the population with a service hundereds of times slower. And while they'll happily install a fiber optic line, there isn't any boradband service they can provide via it (i.e. UK FTTH availability is 0%, not even in trial stage).
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"ADSL is available to 95% of Japanese homes, and FTTH available to
("only") 64%! Many if not most ADSL homes enjoy 12 Mbps service, and
24 Mbps service will become a reality in 2003. And 100 Mbps FTTH
service currently costs JPY5400 per month (USD$45) and friends tell me
that will drop by almost 20% next month. It's very cool to see
billboards on Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama-Dori advertising NTT's 100
Mbps broadband service next to ads for cosmetics and couture. By the
way, this survey piece implies that cable modem service has been left
in the dust by both Fiber and DSL."
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Yes, that is 100 Mbps. For $45/£29 a month. For £2 a month less BT will provide a fraction of the population with a service hundereds of times slower. And while they'll happily install a fiber optic line, there isn't any boradband service they can provide via it (i.e. UK FTTH availability is 0%, not even in trial stage).
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Dr Gonzo wrote:
> Lucky students in the last weeks of their rented houses not bothered
> about the service being cut off as they'll be away anyway.
They may get a bit more of a shock when they find they're tied to 12 month contracts though.
> Lucky students in the last weeks of their rented houses not bothered
> about the service being cut off as they'll be away anyway.
They may get a bit more of a shock when they find they're tied to 12 month contracts though.
ah right cool, i was thinking it was a little harsh.
*goes to kill his source*
*goes to kill his source*
At the moment they are not enforcing the limit though (I think it kicks in at the end of April). It isn't like a cut off, I know people who are still pulling 4GB a day, everyday. Lucky students in the last weeks of their rented houses not bothered about the service being cut off as they'll be away anyway.
Even when it is enforced, it'll still not be a cut off but something like if you exceede the limit more than three days a week or something (that was just an example, but you get the idea).
Even when it is enforced, it'll still not be a cut off but something like if you exceede the limit more than three days a week or something (that was just an example, but you get the idea).
Another thing i noticed about broadband the other day...
Did you know NTL have a limit to the amount of stuff you can download in one day? even if you have the 1mbit connection you can only download 1gb a day. Which is crap if you ask me.
you can download 1gb on that connection in like 3 hours.
Did you know NTL have a limit to the amount of stuff you can download in one day? even if you have the 1mbit connection you can only download 1gb a day. Which is crap if you ask me.
you can download 1gb on that connection in like 3 hours.
I tried reading that paragraph, but started to salivate confusedly.
:P
:P
I hate BT, but with the midband services ready to go I was prepred to give them a little more slack. Then you read something like this...
---
"ADSL is available to 95% of Japanese homes, and FTTH available to
("only") 64%! Many if not most ADSL homes enjoy 12 Mbps service, and
24 Mbps service will become a reality in 2003. And 100 Mbps FTTH
service currently costs JPY5400 per month (USD$45) and friends tell me
that will drop by almost 20% next month. It's very cool to see
billboards on Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama-Dori advertising NTT's 100
Mbps broadband service next to ads for cosmetics and couture. By the
way, this survey piece implies that cable modem service has been left
in the dust by both Fiber and DSL."
---
Yes, that is 100 Mbps. For $45/£29 a month. For £2 a month less BT will provide a fraction of the population with a service hundereds of times slower. And while they'll happily install a fiber optic line, there isn't any boradband service they can provide via it (i.e. UK FTTH availability is 0%, not even in trial stage).
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"ADSL is available to 95% of Japanese homes, and FTTH available to
("only") 64%! Many if not most ADSL homes enjoy 12 Mbps service, and
24 Mbps service will become a reality in 2003. And 100 Mbps FTTH
service currently costs JPY5400 per month (USD$45) and friends tell me
that will drop by almost 20% next month. It's very cool to see
billboards on Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama-Dori advertising NTT's 100
Mbps broadband service next to ads for cosmetics and couture. By the
way, this survey piece implies that cable modem service has been left
in the dust by both Fiber and DSL."
---
Yes, that is 100 Mbps. For $45/£29 a month. For £2 a month less BT will provide a fraction of the population with a service hundereds of times slower. And while they'll happily install a fiber optic line, there isn't any boradband service they can provide via it (i.e. UK FTTH availability is 0%, not even in trial stage).
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