{"id":3533,"date":"2009-06-30T08:29:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T08:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2009-06-30T08:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T08:29:07","slug":"us_vs_japan_res","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3533","title":{"rendered":"US vs. Japan: Residential Internet Service Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/publications\/policy\/u_s_vs_japan_residential_internet_service_provision_pricing\">Chiehyu Li<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The following chart lists the price, download and upload speeds of residential Internet services in the U.S. and Japan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s telephone lines at low prices.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nCable\/DSL service<br \/>\nIn 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.<br \/>\nIn 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).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/publications\/policy\/u_s_vs_japan_residential_internet_service_provision_pricing\">Chiehyu Li<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The following chart lists the price, download and upload speeds of residential Internet services in the U.S. and Japan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s telephone lines at low prices.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nCable\/DSL service<br \/>\nIn 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.<br \/>\nIn 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).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,33,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}