On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
On Sunday, February 24, 2002, at 10:37 , Stephen Donnelly wrote:
How much bandwidth is "a lot of bandwidth"? I see commercial providers with multiple parallel STM-64s plumbed directly into routers either sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific, who are struggling to attract customers to even remotely fill the pipes. The situation in the metro and long-haul intracontinental networks is even more fibre-rich. I don't see a need to build another internet here -- I see a need to start using the existing one :)
Now, could it possibly be the horrendous charges that said providers are attempting to make people pay? ROI is all well and good, but there's a point at which you are charging more than people are prepared to pay, even insanely rich people, and thusly the network remains unused and there's no money coming in to provide a return on the investment. If these providers want to get people using their networks, they may have to take the position that petrol stations take when they knock 10c/L off their prices - Namely, lots of small-profit transactions is often better than a few large-profit ones. And lots of small-profit transactions is definitely better than no transactions at all :P -- Matthew Poole "Ever wondered why cemetaries raise the cost of burials then blame it on the cost of living?" - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog