IT Residential Infrastructure

From the NYTimes -

In Japan, for example, there are now three million homes connected directly to the Internet via fiber-optic cables. Compared with typical United States home bandwidth data rates of 500,000 to 1.5 million bits per second, Japan has bandwidth of 100 million bits a second for $30 to $55 a month, according to Osamu Ishida, an engineer at the NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, an advanced development laboratory in near Tokyo.