[99448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New TransPacific Cable Projects:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Sep 21 20:28:20 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:10:40 GMT
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
>If I were a stakeholder in transpacific cables, I'd be leasing up the =
next 3-6 years of the entire global cable laying fleet. :)
>
The people that have invested in global fiber operate much like a
cartel -- leaking the capacity into the market to keep prices
artificially high, much like the DeBeers family & diamonds. :-)
Historically, representatives of these organizations meet once a
year on the golf course in Hawaii to determine who to sell to.
It would be nice to see some new faces in that game -- maybe it
would help leverage the market a bit.
- - ferg
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