[73256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Aug 17 14:36:21 2004
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Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:34:16 -0400
To: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
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On 17 Aug 2004, at 14:20, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:
> Things are not the same everywhere. Politics, infrastructure, labor,
> taxes, and a myriad of other factors make it not very useful to say
> "US is $30, AU is $300" and expect to draw any meaningful conclusion
> by the comparison - except, of course, that AU transit is more
> expensive than US transit.
I don't know, the Economist has been making allegedly useful comments
about the relative prices of the Big Mac in different economies for a
long time.
http://www.economist.com/markets/Bigmac/Index.cfm
I suppose a more direct analogy to the Big Mac Index would be to take
some usefully-accurate measure of transit costs in each country, and
use that to weight a comparison between other related commodities (cell
phone calls? televisions? computers?)
Of course, I am not an economist, and people who are tend to scare me.
Joe
