At 07:38 27/02/02 +1300, Rodger Donaldson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:36:37PM +1300, Mark Foster wrote:
From my point of view bandwidth is very cheap now. Of course this is coming from first connecting to the Internet when we were being charged around $600/MB ($0.60 per kilobyte) for (international) traffic. Now I'm paying, what, about $0.20 per megabyte (less in some instances) for international traffic.
My problem with this is that you pay $0.20/meg for *traffic* regardless of its target.
No, you don't, unless you've chosen Telecom as a provider. You pay one tenth for domestic traffic, last I looked at my pricing plan. Ewen's talking about TelstraNameOfTheWeek cable modems.
Ah... see.. here comes that choice thing again.. I live in the suburbs of Manukau City in Auckland... If I want quick internet Jetstream is really the only turn. After sticking it out for 18 months I think ive finally given up, though.. when I move out of my current place, which will be in a few months, im going to revert to Jetstart. I cant afford Jetstream anymore. Maybe Telecom need to see this as a sign? I prefer the speed, and im not a leech! But I still cant manage it.
Bandwidth has dropped in cost, but we download more, and faster, nowadays.
Oddly enough, you may find some relationship between these facts.
I do see the relationship, and people who rant about how its all too expensive irritate me - but I find myself having to agree with them to at least some degree. Id really seriously like to know what kind of margins there are in the Jetstream/Jetstart packages - because I know from an ISP point of view, the overhead is pushing the boundaries of what is genuinely profitable. Jetstart is a classic example of this.... Mark. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog