In-Stat Group expects China to be the first huge market for True ADSL, with the Japanese not far behind.
Japan is firmly committed to becoming the best-connected nation on earth.
Rolling out new phone lines and True ADSL capabilities will give them a long-term competitive advantage. China sees True ADSL as an opportunity to do more things with their telephone system than just connect voice calls. ADSL data rates can be up to 200 times faster then even today's 56k modems. Nobody has ADSL yet, and most local telephone companies are content to leave it that way, at least for now. In recent trials, technicians discovered that older wiring that's been spliced or moved around just doesn't perform as well.