[132677] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Tue Nov 30 02:42:07 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1011300816570.1154@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:42:00 -0500
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I spent have the GDP of Kyrgyzstan on their roaming charges when I
thought my Google Voice was using the WiFi vs. the mobile network.
Jeff
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrot=
e:
> 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 =A0the 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 th=
is
> 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 =A0 =A0email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
>
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