On Tue, 25 May 2004, Barry Murphy wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Poole"
Just looking through the article again, I see that TC are claiming that increased local traffic is raising costs. Umm, HOW!? The circuit to APE is a fixed cost, there's no charge for traffic only for capacity. I'm sure WIX is the same.
Perhaps it's the amount of national traffic they doing these days because of 2mb cable (slowest plan available) customers, maybe they having to upgrade the speed of their peering links.
Those links are a fixed cost, though. And since they're using their own circuits, I fail to see how it can possibly be costing them enough to justify this. Sure, it's not terribly cheap to run ATM circuits around the place, but they already have ATM into the peering points so it's just a question of changing the rate-shape.