[17315] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Prior)
Fri May 29 03:33:18 1998
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 21:25:37 EST."
<980527212537.aafa@SDG.DRA.COM>
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:52:27 +0930
From: Mark Prior <mrp@connect.com.au>
>I think it's a North American view of the world, unsurprising on NANOG
>:-) Traffic metering is the dominant charging mechanism for permanent
>connections in Oz and Connect differentiate traffic based on its
>source (domestic/cache/external).
Hasn't a price war just broken out in Australia, with the dominant
feature being the introduction of flat-rate pricing?
That's the retail, consumer market. Most wholesale is per MB.
Mark.
