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[ NNSquad ] U.S. vs. Japan: Residential Internet Service Provision Pricing
----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:06:11 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] U.S. vs. Japan: Residential Internet Service Provision Pricing Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: June 25, 2009 4:26:26 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] U.S. vs. Japan: Residential Internet Service Provision Pricing U.S. vs. Japan: Residential Internet Service Provision Pricing U.S. Residents Pay More and Receive Lower Speeds By Chiehyu Li, New America Foundation New America Foundation | June 23, 2009 <http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/u_s_vs_japan_residential_internet_service_provision_pricing > • The following chart lists the price, download and upload speeds of residential Internet services in the U.S. and Japan. • NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) is the major incumbent telephone operator in Japan. NTT has focused on fiber-optic business while Yahoo! BB (a subsidiary of SoftBank Telecom Corp.) has had first-mover advantage for DSL Internet. Due to unbundling requirements, Yahoo! BB and @nifty provide DSL service by renting NTT’s telephone lines at low prices. • Cable/DSL service • In the U.S., the price for cable or DSL (1Mbps-7 Mbps) ranges from roughly $20-45/month. Comcast has higher speed Internet, 15Mbps-50Mbps, and costs $43-$140 per month • In Japan, the typical Internet speed is higher than the U.S. (8Mbps-50Mbps), and costs $30-60 per month. J:COM, a large cable Internet provider, has cable Internet up to 160Mbps, costs $63 ($0.4 per megabit). • The high-speed Internet market is very competitive in Japan. Customers who pay two dollars more can upgrade from 8Mbps to 12Mbps or even more. For this reason, customers tend to choose higher speed Internet because the marginal costs are low. • Fiber-optic service • In the U.S., Verizon is the only large provider of fiber-optic service, FiOS. There are three options of the service, 15Mbps, 25Mbps, and 50Mbps, $50-$145 per month. • In Japan, the average of fiber-optic speed is up to 100Mbps~1Gbps, costs from $25 to $56 per month ($0.06-0.7 per megabit) for condo residences (up to 6 households or so) depending on VDSL/LAN/Fiber distribution; single house residences are charged higher rates, $55-67($0.03-0.6 per megabit), which is both much cheaper and much faster than the U.S. [snip]RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----