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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8109)	8/21/2000 12:40:58 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Mike, The Japanese installed one of the very earliest FTTH systems in Tsukuba City (Science City) in the mid '80's. Cost per residence connected? US$500,000. The project was quietly abandoned in the mid '90's. Customers were satisfied with the experience, but the service provider could no longer justify costs, surprising, because most of them were sunk. Best, Ray

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8109)	8/21/2000 2:55:19 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Matsushita and NTTPC to offer Internet access via ADSL It is going to be like I said: There won't be a winner will take all the Last Mile. It is just a matter of time and ADSL will pick up there as well. Matsushita and NTTPC to offer Internet access via ADSL RDSL 02 August 2000 Matsushita Electric Industrial has teamed up with NTTPC Communications to offer an ADSL Internet access service, set to launch on a trial basis on 20 August 2000 in certain regions of Osaka and Tokyo, both Japan. It will be offered through Matsushita's Panasonic Hi-Ho Internet access service, with the subscription fee waived until end-November 2000. NTTPC will make its IP backbone available to Matsushita. The service will use the type-I ADSL access lines for NTT West and NTT East, offering maximum data rates of 224 kilobits per second upstream and 512 Kbps downstream.

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8109)	8/22/2000 2:18:09 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: Japan Stats - CM, DSL, Mobile Wireless, and Overall Internet Thread- I just went through all the recent articles urls were given for and complied these stats on a single page. I hope I didn't make an error. I did do some rounding on some of the figures to make it easier to remember. If you take out the ISDN users, then Japan is WAY behind the US in broadband access. But if you include ISDN, then they are WAY ahead. Hard one to figure out? The US has something like 52% PC penetration rate, whereas Japan has 38%. The precise figure for Internet users(out of total population) in the USA escapes me, but I believe it's over 50%. So that makes it something around 135 million USA Internet users-- Could that be right? If so, by comparison, Japan only has 23 million or so. So it appears from first glance that Japan is considerably behind the US in terms of wired Internet use(Mobile wireless Internet use is a completely different animal). And if not for ISDN, Japan would be just barely started on the road to broadband. I'm optimistic that once Japan starts pulling out of their economic plights with confidence, we may see a surge in telecommunications infrastructure spending. -MikeM(From Florida) ****************************** -Approximate 130 million total population -Total of 20 to 27 million Internet users -10 to 13 million of those are wireless Internet users -Of the wireless subs, 7.5 million are i-mode(NTT DoCoMo) -15 million at home Internet users -12 million out of home Internet users -4.4 million overlap -Total of 22 million Internet users -18% of the total population are Internet users -38% of Japanese households have a PC -14 million own Internet phones -75,000 CM subs yr end 1999 -100,000 CM users yr end 2000 -200 DSL subs yr end 1999 -6,000 DSL subs yr end 2000 -By 2010 10 million CM users projected -By 2010 5 million DSL users projected -By 2010 45 million Internet users projected -Broadband Access(DSL or CM) costs between $50-$90/month -Jupiter Telecommunications is largest Japanese MSO -Jupiter has 25,000 CM subs -Jupiter charges $60/month for CM service -Titus is number two MSO in Japan -Titus has 100,000 TV subs -Titus has 20,000 CM subs -Titus has 20% penetration rate for CM access -Titus will now offer voice/video/data discount package ________________________ "ISDN services are now provided by the east and west regional units of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (9432) group. They have some 7 million households signed on to the service." -7 million ISDN home users? This still is a surprisingly high figure and I couldn't find it referenced in any of the urls.