As US ISPs look to gouge & plunder the Japanese ramp up speed on the cheap

Japan’s Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future – washingtonpost.com

Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it.

Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world’s fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.