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Japanese broadband prices make Sweden look dear

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  • 22-12-2003 2:41pm
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    molinaalexis
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    While swedes might feel they are lucky getting 100Mbit/s broadband connections for SEK 895, that's ludicrously expensive compared to Japan.

    A colleague from a Japanese magazine says that NTT East has offered 100Mbps bi-directional service at ¥5880 (around £30) a month including VAT since April this year.

    And NTT West has an even more impressive offering, selling a similar service for ¥5670. Neither service has any cap for downloading and while customers have to contract for the service, that is only ¥500 a month.


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    muffen
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    They've always been nuts in Japan when it comes to technology :)

    I'd pick Sweden over Japan any day though, as houseprices in Japan are just insane, whereas Sweden must be one of the cheapest places to live in Western Europe. Not that I checked any stats, but I know you can start getting decent apartments in the Stockholm area (not central) for around 400 euros a month.


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    Moriarty
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    molinaalexis, can you please attribute any articles that you paste in here in future :)

    I wonder how close to cost price NTT are selling this. Are OLOs allowed to sell services over the network?


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