Japanese Sony offers fastest home internet in world

While Australians compare the merits of Labor's fibre-to-the-home national broadband network with the Coalition's fibre-to-the-node proposal, Sony has installed the world's fastest home internet connection in Japan.

So-net Entertainment, a Sony-backed Japanese ISP, has launched a fibre-based internet service that reaches download speeds of 2 gigabit per second (Gbps), making it more than 20 times faster than the offerings of both Labor and the Coalition in Australia.
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The Nuro, as the service is called, is available to homes and small businesses in Tokyo and six surrounding prefectures, Computerworld reports.

The upload speed is a little slower than download at 1 Gbps, but it's still faster than most of us get anywhere else in the world.

By comparison, the ultra-fast Google Fibre broadband internet service offers a "mere" 1 Gbps download speed – which is still some 100 times faster than today's average home internet connection – in Austin, Texas and Kansas City, Missouri in the US.

Nuro costs 4980 Yen ($A50) on a two-year contract, plus a 52,500 ($524) installation fee.

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