Nintendo promotes fiber-optic internet in Japan

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A few more years in America stuck with Comcast and I think I might have no choice but to move to Japan and get fiber optic internet. Either that or I stick with Comcast and let it slowly drive me insane.

Hey, you could always get Verizon FiOS. That's Fiber to the home, and it's the only company in the US that is doing it.

true, but FiOS isn't 100/100, which is the most appealing thing about Japanese fiber service.

yah, Nintendo has quite a history with Online Services....

makes me wonder, why offer this yet not focus on the online service offered (or lack of it) on the Wii...

What? It isn't a "128 alpha-numeric character code", it's a 16 digit numeric code.

Ack! Sorry. I forgot to close my tag:



I know, sarcasm can be difficult to pick up via text, so I try to use the tag whenever it's more difficult to detect. :)

Also, I meant this as a reply to Jonah Falcon. My bad all over.

I'd suggest waiting until AT&T & Comcast break into the US FO market to break Verizon's hold on it. We should see prices come down for the services. AT&T's got to be planning on upgrading if their going to be offering IPTV service.

FYI, Our tax dollars have already paid to have FO cable laid out to all homes. The phone/cable companies just kept the money and screwed us over! I wish there was something we could do about that. We could have great high speed internet at competitive prices. Google $200 billion broadband scandal to find out more.

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Please, you still can't get Broadband period in chunks of this country

And where it is, the big phone/cable giants control and gouge, gouge, gouge

your comment makes no sense. Major companies have not picked up on FiOS? What's that mean?

The demand for FiOS is huge. You should go to Engadget and read the comments there when they talk about FiOS.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/verizon-rolls-out-super-fast-20-20-fios-internet-service/

There are nearly 70 comments there.

The demand for FiOS is huge, other companies aren't doing Fiber to the premesis because it's too costly, not because there's not enough demand.

as a comcast tech. most people don't have it yet because it isn't available in most places yet. Plus IT IS EXPENSIVE!!!. not to mention that it cost Verizon like 5k just to do an installation. so they went to the rich areas 1st.

2nd they offer the same bandwidth as us. 6, 8, 16 they have a 50MBps though. Which i cant image what that cost a month because the 16Mbps is like 50-60/month. and because there aren't too many servers that deliver that kind of speed to you right now, if any. Its like 1080p.

And most people don't know that our distribution system IS fiber. only the feeder to drop to house is Coax. +20dB hi doesn't mean shit because the FCC standard for a TV is 0 to +15 dBmV and a converter is 0 to +10dBmV. And frequency signal level isn't measured in dB its dBmV. dB is just a measurement between two levels. So that commercial from a tech perspective is Bogus.....but then again telling someone +20dB Hi sounds cool though. Oh and by the way no component or set accepts fiber yet so guess whats in your house RG6 COAX!!!!