[132676] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Nov 30 02:18:13 2010
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:18:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
>> Considering there are mobile roaming partners that charge USD10-15 per
>> megabyte, unfortunately that proposition is really hard to do in todays
>> global market.
>
> but really, the 'cost' here is the same as a local wireless user for
> air-time traffic, then 1$/mbps to ship the bits off their network
> across the internet, right?
Unfortunately the "cost" and the "price" has a very low correlation in
this market. The same carriers who charge USD10 per megabyte for roaming
might charge 0.1USD per megabyte to some of their own end users.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
