Haha gotta love Japan for that, our building was just upgraded and so we got a special deal.... it's actually cheaper then the ADSL for the first year and 500 yen (about $5) more a month after that. The same service in Canada or the US would be at least 3 times as much
It's been available here for some time, but we live in an older apartment building and it took them a while to upgrade our lines.