The worst case scenario of course is that if both telco's remove the
price differential between local and international traffic, what you
will find is that all the local hosting will move offshore and there
will be no local content any more.
Looking at it from our point of view we can get our own box in the US
with a 1 Terabyte traffic for US$65/month (and we have one, this is not
theoretical) versus thousands/month locally.
The end user will end up paying for traffic but since they will be
paying the same for local or international they won't care. But the
telco's will suddenly find that most of their traffic will become
international and their actual cost will go up.
This is just short-term thinking by accountants without thinking of the
long-term consequences.
jfp.
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Jean-Francois Pirus