[IP] Japan's Local Communities with High-Speed Internet Access: The Case of Haramachi City
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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:38:28 +0900
From: Adam Peake <ajp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Japan's Local Communities with High-Speed Internet Access: The Case of
Haramachi City
Dave,
My colleague Takahiro Miyao has just written a short report about a
municipal broadband project in a small Japanese town called Haramachi City,
a few hundred miles north east of Tokyo. Haramachi has built a high speed
local access network using fixed wireless (40Mbps both way), on top of
spare capacity in the town's municipal fiber network. Financed partly by
central government subsidies. Haramachi City is not the only rural Japanese
town building this kind of network, and one interesting aspect of these new
communication infrastructure subsidies is speculation that they are being
promoted by politicians who are directing funds to help their
constituencies and home regions in much the same way as they brought
engineering or agricultural subsidies and public works projects in the
past. Now this political power may be being directed at ensuring local
regions have the best broadband communications available, i.e. it's
political "pork" for the Internet age.
Please see <http://www.glocom.org/tech_reviews/jt_review/20040106_s53/> for
Prof. Miyao's report on Haramachi City.
Thanks,
Adam
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