{"id":652480,"date":"2013-04-15T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=439372"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:15:10","slug":"sony-backed-isp-shames-google-fiber-launches-2gbps-service-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652480","title":{"rendered":"Sony-backed ISP shames Google Fiber, launches 2Gbps service in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/sony-tokyo-2gbps-internet-service-439372\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/fiber-e1346177429165.jpg?w=650&amp;h=434&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sony-backed ISP launches home Internet service double the speed of Google Fiber\" title=\"Fiber Optics Cable\" \/><\/a><\/center>A <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sony\">Sony<\/a>-backed ISP has announced that it now offers the world&#8217;s fastest home broadband service. So-net Entertainment on Monday began offering its \u201cNuro\u201d fiber-based service to residents in Tokyo and six surrounding areas. The service is available for Y4,980 ($51) per month with a two-year service agreement and a Y52,500 ($535) installation fee. Customers who apply online, however, will have the one-time fee waived. Upload speeds top out\u00a0at 1Gbps and download speeds come in at a blisteringly fast 2Gbps, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/14\/google-fiber-early-adopter-700mbps\/\">double that of Google Fiber<\/a>. Although most\u00a0users are unlikely to experience these speeds due to limitations of most consumer network adaptors, this doesn&#8217;t change the fact that residents of Tokyo will still have access to speeds well above the rest of the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google-fiber\">Google Fiber<\/a> currently offers the fastest speeds in the United States with its 1 Gbps service plan for $70 per month, however it is only available in limited markets.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/VmkYfLchw_k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sony-backed ISP has announced that it now offers the world&#8217;s fastest home broadband service. So-net Entertainment on Monday began offering its \u201cNuro\u201d fiber-based service to residents in Tokyo and six surrounding areas. The service is available for Y4,980 ($51) per month with a two-year service agreement and a Y52,500 ($535) installation fee. Customers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}