[173047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Tue Jul 15 08:49:15 2014
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:49:07 +0200
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 15 July 2014 06:21, Brett Glass <nanog@brettglass.com> wrote:
> Perhaps it's best to think of it this way: I'm outsourcing some backbone
> routing functions to my upstreams, which (generously) aren't charging me
> anything extra to do it. In my opinion, that's a good business move.
>
Ah but they are charging you for it. You are paying approximately 40x as
much for your bandwidth as you should be (you said you paid 20 USD/Mbps -
an outrageous rate). You have a link to a place where you can buy 1 Gbps
flatrate for USD 500 per month, so why aren't you?
Regards,
Baldur
