On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:15:19PM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: Nobody with any sense would think that, but... Jetstream currently charges between 13 and 23 cents per megabyte. And what does it cost them to deliver this to the user? What other factors aside from 'bandwidth' affect this cost? Is anyone holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy this? Many people (sadly not everyone one) can choose another carrier/supplier ... are they significantly cheaper? Does that strike you as affordable, compared to other countries? 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 --- and they are also paying for a very expensive transpacific cable which almost certainly makes up a good percentage of the overall cost involved. --cw [1] Yes, in theory we could do much much more than this over a T1, but I'm talking about typical use here. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog