[99787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Thu Oct 4 11:10:39 2007
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:30:22 +0930
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4704FDA3.7000704@ukbroadband.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:50:11PM +0100, Leigh Porter wrote:
> Also there may be more tax costs, staff costs, equipment costs with
> import duty etc which obviously means buying more equipment to support
> more throughput costs more money.
The biggest issues are the transmission costs to get to the USA.
There are basically two cable systems, Southern Cross and AJC
(we'll ignore SEA-ME-WE-3 because you can only buy STM-1's on it,
and who wants to mess around with trivialities like that?)
Ask an economist what happens to prices in duopoly environments.
The cost of crossing the Pacific is north of US$200 per megabit
per month in .au, which I reckon is about ten times what it costs
you Europeans to get across the Atlantic (or what it costs the
Japanese to cross the very same Pacific)
There are a few cable projects underway at the moment which
may break the duopoly, e.g.,
http://www.pipenetworks.com/docs/media/ASX_07_08_09%20Runway%20Update%204%20-%20BSa.pdf
I suspect we're going to have an interesting few years.
- mark
--
Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W)
Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H)
Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999
"Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223
