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On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Ran Atkinson wrote: > This is another reason to use Guam for an interconnect. Guam is part > of the USA and so telecommunications is already deregulated. (A side benefit > for US citizens living on Guam is that Guam is the only place in the universe > where one's income is not subject to US Federal Income Tax, go figure :-). On Oct 11, 10:35am, Robert Mathews-ICICX wrote: % Hello Fellow Electronic Colleagues: % % <looking around a room> Can anyone say Hawaii? :) Hawaii does have lots of fiber. Monetary costs for circuits between Guam and Hawaii are not ignorable. Also, back-haul all the way to Hawaii for an intra-Asia interconnect causes a significant increase in latency when compared with a Guam-based interconnect. (No, I've never been to Guam and I don't own any land or fiber there :-) Ran [email protected] -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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