Joe Abley wrote:
The Korean experience over the last 3 years has seen a change of ratio from 5% National:: 95%International to 95% National:: 5%International (despite significant increases in International traffic, and because of phenomenal increases in National traffic).
Korea is a cultural island. While I'm sure that the massive broadband build-outs in Seoul did a lot to push domestic traffic, there's also a terrific lack of demand for content hosted elsewhere due to the language barrier.
Agreed, but the point is that there *is* far greater demand for local traffic than international. With 10 Meg pipes costing less than US$30 per month for unlimited access, the desire to shunt data locally between office and home, school and home, home to home, traffic webcam to home or work etc etc increases dramatically, whereas the need to see more USA based pr0n websites doesn't neccessarily increase. I was using Korea as an extreme example, but even the Citylink model shows the way. I know Citylink customers who shunt huge files across Wellington every day, and either laugh or cry at those who don't have Citylink connections who have to pay telcos large dollops of dosh each month for the quantities of data they push around. Cheers Keith Davidson