At 7:45 PM -0500 25/2/02, Joe Abley wrote:
On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 07:02 , Chris Wedgwood wrote:
Let me see... $800USD for the circuit to our apartment. It probably handles about 500MB/traffic per day[1], often less. Thats about 5.3c/MB (US) or about 13c/MB (NZD).
Now, that's ball park with what people in NZ pay
Not really -- price yourself half an E1 in New Zealand with IP transit over it, and see how that compares.
I'll say it once more. The main cost of bandwidth is our international links.
NZ is a long way to anywhere else, and is not ON the way to anywhere
else much except Antarctica. So our international links are expensive
(and have high latency until we get around to upgrading the speed of
light).
For all the wondrous attractions of Australia, the fact remains that
most Internet traffic---about 80% of it---goes to or via the USA.
People say they want flat rate. They want unlimited bandwidth at
10Mbps. And they want it for