Japanese Internet Pricing?

JustinRossTso · (#1 (**permalink**))

Hello everyone! I'd like to talk about Internet Pricing in Japan. Is it flat-rate internet pricing or is it bandwidth based?

I know in Canada we used to have flat-rate internet pricing, but now it has become a bandwidth based one, and each GB after your limit is about 2$ or more!

I'm sure USA is the same as well.

Is this the same around the world?

Nyororin · (#2 (**permalink**))

It is flat-rate. I am sure that you can probably track down somewhere offering a bandwidth based service, but I certainly can`t think of any. The rates for high speed access are so low to begin with that it would be hard to justify bandwidth based schemes.

An example - we have a package where our home phone service and internet are in one bundle. 100Mbps down, 40Mbps up (Actual 77Mbps down, 28Mbps up) for 4300/month. Unlimited flat rate.

siokan · (#3 (**permalink**))

My Apartment
VDSL100Mbps (Actually down70Mbps/up66Mbps)

4 mail account
3973yen/month
Unlimited

The person of a good environment is a speed of 90Mbps or more.

JustinRossTso · (#4 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyororin

It is flat-rate. I am sure that you can probably track down somewhere offering a bandwidth based service, but I certainly can`t think of any. The rates for high speed access are so low to begin with that it would be hard to justify bandwidth based schemes.

An example - we have a package where our home phone service and internet are in one bundle. 100Mbps down, 40Mbps up (Actual 77Mbps down, 28Mbps up) for 4300/month. Unlimited flat rate.

Wow! That's soooo much better than here... I feel like we're getting ripped off.

One of our fastest packages here is... 50Mbps down, and 2Mbps up. With a limit of 175 GB per month. For 100$ Canadian.

But I guess I have to take into consideration, that Canada is so much larger than Japan :P. Maybe that's why? It's still really expensive though

. Used to be flat rate!

Thanks for the reply! ^^!

Quote:

Originally Posted by siokan

My Apartment
VDSL100Mbps (Actually down70Mbps/up66Mbps)

4 mail account
3973yen/month
Unlimited

The person of a good environment is a speed of 90Mbps or more.

My current plan is 10Mbps (I think actually with my router it is 1Mbs...) download, and 512 Kbps upload. 60 Gb Monthly Limit!

Haha Mine is 1/70th of yours:P!

protheus · (#5 (**permalink**))

Flat rate in Romania for land lines (mobile ones are mostly bandwidth based, and when you pass certain limit on mobile, your download and upload decreases to 750 kb/s, no extra pay for extra traffic).

Speed is modest, 75 Mb/s down, 15 Mb/s upload, from January this year it increased to 150 Mb/s down and 75 Mb/s up, the price remained the same, just the network got upgraded. Monthly fee is about 6 Euro.

PS: I didn't recon' that Japan has lower speed than my country, but I found some studies on the net, it seems we are almost at the top of bandwidth and speed per person in Europe.

RealJames · (#6 (**permalink**))

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I've got the 160M connection for 6000yen a month, it is ridiculously fast

protheus · (#7 (**permalink**))

whoops, double post...

JustinRossTso · (#8 (**permalink**))

Wow, the prices actually don't seem to bad in Japan! Thanks for the replies, I sorta have an idea now

! And in Romania too?

Nyororin · (#9 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by protheus

PS: I didn't recon' that Japan has lower speed than my country, but I found some studies on the net, it seems we are almost at the top of bandwidth and speed per person in Europe.

Most places in Japan are now using 1000Mbps (1Gbps) at the standard - the thing is, if you live in an apartment or condo you don`t have the option to just have them change the lines at your personal whim.
Our current plan is technically 300Mps, but they haven`t gotten around to changing the main lines in the building so we still only have 100Mbps.
I hadn`t checked for months, but somewhere along the line it looks like they also changed up to the same as down.

evanny · (#10 (**permalink**))

nyororin...i don't get it...how can you get 77mb/s download speed.
optic cable, sure, but here you can download files with ~25mb/s with optic and upload ~12mb/s, not 77/50.
only some places have it since wires are not so accessible for it, but if you get it then it's cheap. its 30$ a month for unlimited use. meanwhile i pay ~35$ for 10mb(~1mb down.)

P.S how's downloading in Japan? movies, music are everyday thing? or there are bandwidth monitors that are out to get illegal downloaders?