Coming to Japan: high speed internet via power lines
Also from Yahoo News:
The government plans to enable high-speed Internet access via existing power lines instead of telephone or cable TV lines, government officials said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will revise a ministry regulation and start accepting applications for the Internet access known as power line communications within this year, the officials said.
In a recommendation report submitted earlier in the day, the Radio Regulatory Council, an advisory panel for communications minister Heizo Takenaka, favored the lifting of a current ban on power line communications, the officials said.
In the planned service, power lines at home will be used as a local area network by attaching special modems to power outlets. The system is expected to be capable of transmitting information at a speed equal to that of data communications via fiber optics.
I already have a fiberoptic connection, but who can say “no” to more ultra high speed internet acess options? The ability to download torrents at 2.0 megabytes a second is something that may keep me in Japan for some time..
