[99847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Sat Oct 6 14:52:28 2007
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: newton@internode.com.au (Mark Newton)
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 10:16:16 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: andrew@profitability.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071006024603.GB66939@internode.com.au> from "Mark Newton" at Oct 06, 2007 12:16:03 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> In the Australian ISP's case (which is what started this) it's rather
> worse.
>
> The local telco monopoly bills between $30 and $50 per month for access
> to the copper tail.
>
> So there's essentially no such thing as a $19.99/month connection here
> (except for short-lived "flash-in-the-pan" loss-leaders, and we all know
> how they turn out)
>
> So to run the numbers: A customer who averages .25Mbit/sec on a tail acquired
> from the incumbent requires --
>
> Port/line rental from the telco ~ $50
> IP transit ~ $ 6 (your number)
> Transpacific backhaul ~ $50 (I'm not making this up)
These look like great places for some improvement.
> Like I said a few messages ago, as much as your marketplace derides
> caps and quotas, I'm pretty sure that most of you would prefer to do
> business with my constraints than with yours.
That's nice from *your* point of view, as an ISP, but from the end-user's
point of view, it discourages the development and deployment of the next
killer app, which is the point that I've been making.
... JG
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