you may want to look at the relationship between the japanese government and the industry, and the various societal players in between, before taking this at north american face value. but 100meg ether to the home and office (in the urban centers) and more innovative use of media have fostered much faster increases of bandwidth needs in japan and korea than in north america. and shuresh, when you have some good automated technology for "clamping down on worm traffic / assorted junk from zombies and open proxies etc," i suspect many folk in those countries and the rest of the world will deploy it or something like it. in the meantwixt, our sympathies that your monopolistic telco environment has not fostered enough bandwidth deployment that your country could become a worm ... problem :-). randy