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Not mine — it’s from work, unfortunately.

With all the business travel lately, a high-speed mobile data card finally made an appearance.

In university I used a 64K PHS card. This one does 7.2 Mbps.

The pace of progress is remarkable.

In actual use it’s getting about 1 Mbps — similar to early ADSL speeds in practice.

Will conversations like “so many images, why does this page load so slowly” — the old narrowband complaints — just disappear from the world completely?

My home fiber internet costs about ¥7,000 a month, which is steep. I thought about cancelling it and switching to portable E-Mobile instead, but at around 1 Mbps it can’t really handle heavy use. That plan was shelved.

 

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