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Japan’s Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future. Most UK households now have broadband Internet

August 29, 2007 /

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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.

By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service

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Most UK households now have broadband Internet

The majority of households in the United Kingdom now have a broadband Internet connection, official statistics, quoted by an AFP report, said.

The AFP report said a total of 15.23 million households (61%) have Internet access, an increase of nearly one million households (7%) on last year, according to the 2007 National Statistics Omnibus Survey.

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