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An uninformed article at The Washington Post claimed that Japan had the worlds fastest Internet connection.

Quote:

Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world’s fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.

The article got dugg many times and consequently became popular, but this simply isn’t true. It’s true that Japan has much faster and cheaper broadband in the USA, that’s not difficult at all, infact most developed Nations have better broadband service than the USA but the first country to develop super fast broadband was Korea, and the fastest connection service is in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is also the only place in the World that has a successful IPTV deployment with NOW that is actually a true challenger to Cable TV.

Sure there are individuals who have faster connections like the famous swede that has 40 G/bs going into her home, but as a mass residential product, Hong Kong and Korea were first to offer 100 Mbps into the home and since a few years ago also 1 Gbps per second. And that was all the way back in 2005!!

FON @ 電腦節 2007

FON 將於 8月24日至27日在香港會議展覽中心舉行的電腦節 2007 與大家見面。為慶祝 FON 的 La Fonera 路由器被大會評選為「最物超所值產品」，所有入場人仕可於 FON 的攤位（N33-40）以熱爆價 HK$99 購買原價 $119 的 La Fonera 路由器一個。除此之外，FON 最新推出的La Fonera+ 路由器、La Fontenna 天線和FON USB WiFi Adaptor 在場內均以優惠價發售！

8月24日至27日，記得前往電腦節 2007 選購你心愛的 FON 產品，一起加入 FON 這個全球最大的 WiFi 社群吧！

FON Spots @ 香港

FON 會員可以免費連接全球任何一個 FON 熱點 (FON Spot)。在香港，除了由 FON 會員提供的四千多個 FON Spots 外，我們更與各商號及機構合作，不繼擴充網絡覆蓋範圍，務求做到 WiFi WHEREWHERE!

為方便大家搜尋FON Spots, 除原有的 FON MAP 外，我們亦將部份特約無線上網熱點的地址上載到這裡。若你擁有一個在有利位置的 FON Spot，歡迎向我們報料，好讓我們把你的熱點加進資料庫並對外公佈。

In the crossing opposite New Henry House and Lee Garden 1 and 2 which is pretty much in the heart of one of the busiest shopping and office areas in Causeway I was amazed to discover a FON signal, and a very strong one as well that obviously was spilling over from some office location.

The signal was this one, FON_InTheBuff so I looked around and saw the signal around me came from a Nail place called In the Buff, I may have to check it out one day! In any event, those who know Hong Kong can tell, this is a very busy location, so well done to FON for making it available in one of the major shopping districts in Hong Kong, this entire street is FON enabled.

What surprised me was how strong the Signal was, despite me not knowing where it came from, and the entire area had FON, very cool, it had the same signal strength as PCCW and you could see that alone on this street there were two different FON signals (and more as I walk down).

This building with the Omega had FON inside as well, which is right around the corner. It is very encouraging to me!

I found the FON signal on IFC (International Finance Center), specifically the Terrace area and also the Lobby area, I guess one of them is the restaurant Le Bernard Gouter, but there were several signals there as well such as H1 and G1, it’s turning out to be a good FON Spot area.