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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
Actually it is being provided by the Japanese equivalent of BT, NTT for the most part. NTT also offer a wholesale Fibre to home product. Yahoo are reselling NTT wholesale products, in the same manner that DSL providers in the UK sell the massive 512k and 1Mbit products that BT offer.
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That's not quite accurate. There is a very big difference between the unbundled BT products here and the unbundled NTT products in Japan (which are generaly considered interconection products and not wholesale products btw).
In the UK BT was forced to offer competing operators access to it's local loops, at a regulated cost plus basis. In Japan this is also the case but they (japanese gov) ALSO have forced NTT to 'unbundle' (offer competitors cost plus access to) their dark fiber. This is not the case in the UK and is a major reason that YahooBB in Japan have been able to build their network and offer competing products that are 'superior' to those on offer in the UK. There are of course other factors involved but this is proabaly the biggest single factor / difference.
To Kronas
'Bandwidth' does cost money of course but it is a very minor part of the overall cost of provision of BB. I would estimate it at less than 5% of the total cost of provision (and maybe as low as 1%). It is also very subject to 'economies of scale' so if X amount of 'bandwidth' (external connectivity to the internet) cost Y then 10 * X does NOT cosy 10 * Y. Also such external connectivity is usualy a matter of peering agreements rather than interconnect agreeements and thus the economies of 'getting it' are very different.