Softbank this week announced that they'll start offering one gigabyte per second optical broadband for users in Japan, all for around $38 a month. Softbank is the second largest broadband provider in Japan behind Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, who already offer a 100Mbps service for ¥4,500 ($40) a month. There were 1.6 million fiber users in Japan at the end of August 2004, compared to some 12.55 million ADSL users.
