{"id":5699,"date":"2009-10-01T03:25:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2009-10-01T03:25:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:25:37","slug":"softbank-to-cap-iphone-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/softbank-to-cap-iphone-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank To Cap iPhone Bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/softbank_mobile.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/softbank_mobile.gif\" alt=\"Softbank Mobile&#039;s Logo\" title=\"Softbank Mobile&#039;s Logo\" width=\"141\" height=\"21\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3609\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/iphone_3gs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/iphone_3gs-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone 3GS\" title=\"iPhone 3GS\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4697\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s exclusive iPhone provider Softbank, the 3rd largest carrier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbankmobile.co.jp\/ja\/news\/press\/2009\/20090929_01\/index.html\">announced<\/a> [J] that they will introduce bandwidth limit for heavy users of their data plan from December, to keep network quality and fairness of network usage.<br \/>\nIn case of using the <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.softbank.jp\/mb\/price_plan\/X\/packet_full\/\">Packet-Teigaku(fixed rate)-Full plan<\/a> [J], which Japanese iPhone users usually depends on, if your monthly usage exceeds 10 million packets, your connection can be slowed down by Softbank.<br \/>\nA blog <a href=\"http:\/\/ipodtouchlab.com\/2009\/09\/softbank-ni-gakkarishita.html\">iPod touch lab estimates<\/a> how much you can with the 10 million packets, by referring past Softbank&#8217;s explanation. 10 million packets is considered as 1.22 Gbytes, which roughly matches 300 songs download, 10 songs per day, when one song is 4 Mbytes (4 minutes).<br \/>\nThis restriction may not affect to users who uses text data, like e-mail, twitter, etc. But may affect heavy YouTube and other movie viewing users on 3G network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s exclusive iPhone provider Softbank, the 3rd largest carrier, announced [J] that they will introduce bandwidth limit for heavy users of their data plan from December, to keep network quality and fairness of network usage. In case of using the Packet-Teigaku(fixed rate)-Full plan [J], which Japanese iPhone users usually depends on, if your monthly usage&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/softbank-to-cap-iphone-bandwidth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Softbank To Cap iPhone Bandwidth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[373,1206,1732,2559,3436],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-bandwidth","tag-flat-rate","tag-iphone","tag-network","tag-softbank","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}