Perilocity

St. Edwards Net Neutrality

Thursday 21 Sep 2006 I'm on a panel about net neutrality organized by the local Austin IEEE chapter at St. Edwards University If you're in town, do come. If not, feel free to send me your favorite points that you think I should discuss.

-jsq

Real Fast Broadband

OK, I think I saw some confirming comments about my interpretation of Softbank ADSL's 50Mbps for $25/mo. offering.

For those who don't read Japanese, Try this.

Meanwhile, NTT has decided to get more subscribers than Yahoo Japan by using Fiber to the Home (FTTH). How fast is that? $100Mbps for $31/month.

Show me any U.S. city where individuals can by Internet access at speeds anywhere near that for prices anywhere like that.

Real Broadband

Somebody who reads Japanese, please tell me if this says what I think it says: Softbank ADSL. Looks to me like ADSL at 8Mbps, 12, 26, and 50Mbps.

Here on the drilldown it seems to say 50Mbps is going for 2,725 yen a month, which would be less than $25/month. There's a parenthetical charge that's about the same, and a mention of NTT, but even if that's twice as much total, $50/month for 50Mbps wouldn't be a bad deal.

And can somebody who reads English show me where I can get a similar deal in the U.S.?

-jsq