Japan home owners to be offered 1Gbit/s Internet connection

Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 27/09/2008 14:16

Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI is to start offering 1Gbit/s fibre optic Internet hook-ups for less than the current price of a connection one tenth the speed.

The Hikari One Home Gigabit service will cost ¥5,460 (£28) per month and provide an upstream and downstream connection at 1G bps. Internet-based telephone service and cable TV service can be added to the connection for an additional fee.

To read more of this IDG article, see techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?newsid=104916.

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