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"Who is putting the &amp;quot;broad&amp;quot; in broadband? Japan is!  The Kizuna, which means &amp;quot;wind&amp;quot;, satellite was launched and it looks like it will be capable of making broadband obsolete. They have introduced the hyper-band 1.2 Gbps - Giga Bits Per Second (Billion bits per second.) That&amp;#039;s a tornado-like 150 times faster than DSL and 12 times faster than the best fiber connection. It cost $342 million and is expected to become available in July 2008.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re talking super-high speed wireless Internet communication in a country that experiences dozens of moderate to major earthquakes each year, every year,&amp;quot; Inventorspot notes. &amp;quot;With KIZUNA orbiting above, uninterrupted communication can be maintained when a ground-based network is disrupted by an earthquake or any other natural disaster. Not only in Japan, mind you, but in almost any Asian country - the service will be available at 19 different locations across Southeast Asia.&amp;quot; Stealing, uh, buying off the web would be almost instantaneous."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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