If it’s like here in Finland, coverage means there’s a fibre running under the street in front (or close enough nearby) but because it costs quite a lot to connect a building to it, especially if you want higher speeds and have to start retrofitting every apartment, many haven’t done it.
For example our house officially has fibre coverage, but the street-to-house connection costs ~1800€ which is why we still run a VDSL while the apartment building down the street has 10Gbit to every apartment.
Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.
Not surprising it’s already ahead, as about 20 years ago they offered 100mbps to anyone who could pay for it (a certain Danny Choo comes to mind).
damn that list is so clean. if it was any other place on earth, i guess it would be an incomprehensible or hard to read form
Living there right now and that is hard to believe. It’s very common to find housing that still runs on VDSL. Living in Tokyo too
If it’s like here in Finland, coverage means there’s a fibre running under the street in front (or close enough nearby) but because it costs quite a lot to connect a building to it, especially if you want higher speeds and have to start retrofitting every apartment, many haven’t done it.
For example our house officially has fibre coverage, but the street-to-house connection costs ~1800€ which is why we still run a VDSL while the apartment building down the street has 10Gbit to every apartment.
That’s exactly what’s going on here. My landlord refuses to install the upgrade even if I pay for it too 😔