Clues from Japan

By Brad

The BBC reports, Japan—once saddled with one of the slowest and most costly broadband networks in the world—has managed to dramatically turn things around:

Seeing the country fall behind dramatically in terms of fixed Internet use the government decided to act: the end result was a seriously fast fibre-based FTTH 1Gbps (gigabits per second) (fibre-to-the-home) network at one of the lowest price-per-megabits anywhere.

That means a film, for example, can be downloaded in the time it takes to make a cup of tea.

If it can be done there, it can be done here.