Japan’s Broadband Plan Beats your Wildest Imagination!
The good guys in Japan are driving the rest of us mad with their bold ambitious plans about their country’s digital future.
The current situation in the country is fairly simple. 1Gbps connections are already offered enabling users to download a movie faster than it would take you to ma ke a frappé . And of course, when you get used to it you think it’s normal! More and more Japanese think that “it’s worth having a 1GBPs network for a couple of thousand yen more than Japan’s more common 100 Mbps ADSL service, even if it’s only for displaying web pages 0.1 seconds faster.”
However, what worries the Japanese Government is that broadband access is only 23.6%, a fairly small percentage given the country’s broadband achievements. This is why the government issued a new policy plan called “Zero Broadband Areas Elimination” aiming at 100% broadband penetration by 2011. No, this is not a typo. They aim at 100% penetration in two years time. Most importantly, they plan it with no clear indication of what to do with all the bandwidth available, in the belief that the digital markets will revolutionize their economy given the serious decline of manufacturing.
Read more at BBC News . I have to split now; Barcelona already leads by 1-0 and I have to see the rest of the match . In my favorite good old analogue TV of course.
