Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > Ironically NZ is probably cheaper than the US for bandwidth now (for
> > home users and small businesses certainly). And by and large the
> > quality of service is no worse.
>
> :::BOGGLE::: What? How? Eh? When did this happen? Hang on... oh... you
> mean to a select few,
Not even... last time I priced provider bandwidth, it was on par with
Japan, which is the most has the most expensive bandwidth of those
countries who's telcos aren't "state owned/run". Things may have
changed significantly with the landing of the southern cross cable,
but I doubt it. I have been seeing some *really* odd routing using
the visual traceroute utility going through NZ... I pray to god that
some of the apparent pathing is due to stale DNS LOC records and/or
a dated APNIC allocation db (I suppose it *might* be due to economics),
cause what I've been seeing is completely whacky.
> and not to the great unwashed Internet users, who
> are still paying through every possible orifice for a basic broadband
> service sans SLAs.
Even Japan has tossed per-miniute billing for internet use and *nobody*
of any significance does usage based billing (well, maybe parts of
Europe and Ireland). The most recent curious thing to pop up (in
Japan) is flat-rate 64kbps wireless access (and the kicker is that
compaq flash is the primary form factor for access devices). I cringe
whenever I see somebody downunder writing about international IP
traffic settlement fees.
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