OECD broadband rankings have become a leading indicator of progress in communications development. Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants for the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States, and Germany are 21.6, 20.3, 20.2, 19.6, and 17.1 (Dec. 2006 figures). These statistics depend on reporting from a large number of bureaucrats in private telecommunications companies. For … Continue reading COB-14: advancing progress forward
Homes in Japan are rapidly being connected to optical fiber communications networks. Japan’s incumbent communications company, NTT, had 6.08 million subscribers to its fiber network at the end of March, 2007. That figure indicates an increase of 2.66 million subscribers from March, 2006.[1] NTT’s share of fiber network subscribers in Sept., 2006, was 66%.[2] If … Continue reading ubiquitous fiber network in Japan
In a small park between a highway and apartment buildings, a woman, sunbathing, sits up and paints her toenails.
In an infoworld article entitled “Government policies add to Japan’s broadband success,” Grant Gross led with this news: A wide-ranging government policy on broadband and healthy competition among providers gives Japanese customers greater speeds at a much cheaper price than U.S. customers pay, a Japanese telecom executive said Wednesday. Japanese customers pay about US$0.70 for … Continue reading Japanese bandwidth prices in comparative perspective
Are you wondering why I cleaned my bathroom last week? As a leading communications industry economist, I received advanced notification of Google’s TiSP. I plan to install this movingly impressive technology as soon as I receive it.