On Oct 20, 1:41 pm, pellicleund...@hotmail.com (obakesan) wrote:
> Hi
>
> back in 2000 when I landed in Japan ISP's were hard to find and it was dail-up
> or ISDN only (with reasonably hefty fees and timed local phone calls). Some
> time in 2001 or 2002 ADSL started to get pushed and the "gaman marketing" of
> Innovation Subscribers Don't Need seemed to result in "fire sale" prices in
> late 2002 (probably with noone taking them up).

I Still Don't Know....

>
> I seem to recall that the hand of regulation was tipped by something like AOL
> Times Warner buying into NiftyServe and threatening to close them down if ADSL
> was not rolled out a little more promptly.
>
> My memory serves me badly on this bit of history, but if anyone has any links
> or has a better memory of this than me I'd be keen to hear.

My memories of that time tend towards witnessing NTT spurred into
action by the sight of cable TV providers branching out into providing
relatively inexpensive 24/7 Internet access and telephony over their
expanding networks. I gather that NTT at the time were not focusing
much on existing technology, but were concentrating on leap-frogging
it to bring in the next generation of whatever it was ("Fiber to the
Home"? or just "...to the Curb"?) Real Soon Now.

We had been connected to a cable network some time before, when the
builders of Opera City paid to connect everyone who was likely to be
affected by the proposed buildings coming between them and the Tokyo
Tower transmitter, so we jumped at the chance of such service when the
cable company introduced it.

>
> Jetboy ... you still here?
>
> See Ya
> (when bandwidth gets better ;-)
>
> Chris Eastwood
> Photographer, Programmer Motorcyclist and dingbat
> blog:http://cjeastwd.blogspot.com/
>
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