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I saw this article on Slashdot today talking about 100 Mbps becoming available in Finland next year. This kind of service is already available in Tokyo through NTT and OCN called “OCN 光 with フレッツ” (OCN Hikari with Flets). If I understand it all correctly, this is fiber service to the home through NTT with OCN (a separate company) as the ISP. I ordered this for my new apartment last week. The fiber itself is 1 Gbps but gets converted to 100 Mbps at the router(?) when it enters the apartment building. Unfortunately, my building does not have fiber installed yet, so the installation is going to take about 1.5 months. As for price, the first two months (starting from when?) are free and the next five are ¥3,570/mo., afterwards becoming the standard rate of ¥6,720/mo. Disconnection within two years of service start costs ¥5,250, and becomes free after that. So far the application process has not gone smoothly because the hardware consultant handed me off to the English-speaking software support department, who of course have a) nothing to do with fiber installation and b) have no idea who I am or where my application is. This is going to be really fun, I can tell.

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