[73284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed Aug 18 13:24:36 2004
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:24:01 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler@init7.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <41238304.6010405@init7.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Fredy Kuenzler wrote:
> With these US street prices in mind, how can anyone justify paying
> prices of some commercial exchanges (the last offer I got from PAIX Palo
> Alto was USD 5500 per month for a FE port about a year ago, and Equinix
> Ashburn was not much cheaper). Please note: I'm not talking of the
> technical advantages of peering.
You cant, perhaps they'll realise that before they become deprecated
Steve