In Japan Yahoo! BB is offering 12 mbit/s DSL for $21 monthly! Symmetric! They also offer VoIP services, where a call is about ten times cheaper than with NTT. A call to another Yahoo! BB subscriber is completely free. Imagine video over these pipes. Imagine person to person sharing and collaboration. Imagine what kind of markets for services and digital equipment this creates.
How do they do this? A whopping $2 billion investment on the one hand and cheap, commodity IP equipment (gigabit switches) on the other (Hmm, how expensive was our airline again?).
Now would somebody please unlock the last mile here?
Posted by seefeld at August 14, 2003 14:53