Just thought I'd rub it in some more... ;)

Japan far outstrips other industrial nations in mobile technology [breitbart.com]

Japan far outstrips other Group of Seven industrial economies in terms of mobile technology with a massive 83 percent of cellphone users in the country already having a third-generation connection, according to a survey report released Thursday.

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The survey showed that Japan was also far ahead of the rest of the G-7 countries in offering next-generation access broadband networks, with fiber-to-the-building becoming available to 85 percent of the population by the end of 2007 compared with an average of just 5 percent of households in the European countries having access to high- speed broadband.