{"id":595,"date":"2004-10-07T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T00:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2004-10-07T00:20:22","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T00:20:22","slug":"japan_one_gigab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Japan: one Gigabit\/sec for $40 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/541830.html\">Norie Kuboyama and Tomomi Sekioka<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Softbank, the second-largest provider of high-speed Internet access in Japan, said Monday that Yahoo Japan and Softbank BB would start offering a new optical fiber-based broadband service. Softbank will provide the service at speeds of up to one gigabyte per second and charge users ?4,200, or $38, a month, the company said in a statement.<br \/>\n(Surely this is a typo &#8212; the word here has to be Gigabit.)<br \/>\nSoftbank and NTT, the nation&#8217;s former state monopoly for domestic telephone services, are competing to become Japan&#8217;s largest provider of high-speed Internet access . . . NTT last week said that it would cut its basic monthly fee by ?50 in order to compete with Softbank and KDDI, Japan&#8217;s second-largest mobile phone company.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/in-japan-one-gigabitsec-for-40-month.html\">Via David Isenberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norie Kuboyama and Tomomi Sekioka: Softbank, the second-largest provider of high-speed Internet access in Japan, said Monday that Yahoo Japan and Softbank BB would start offering a new optical fiber-based broadband service. Softbank will provide the service at speeds of up to one gigabyte per second and charge users ?4,200, or $38, a month, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}