Also Japan have several operators that offer 100/100 FDDI (=fiber) to home, mostly in urban areas. IIRC, you may get 10M beginning from $25 in Tokyo area, and 100M ethernet or fiber from $45. In Shanghai, China telecom brought 10M conn with $10 to my grandmother/grandfathers house, though speed was very dependant of time of day (users, lots) and while mainland was blinding fast, rest of the world was mostly like 300bps modem (great firewall of china perhaps, dunno - pages like yahoo worked pretty fast).