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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote: > >As I said, my main point was that the Economist's model was seriously > >flawed. > > ... > Of course, as long as there are more users of the Internet located > in the US, and more content sites in the US, and the interesting > applications located in the US, there will be a greater value > to the non-us IPs to drop lines in, and as our Asian friends have > pointed out it is often cheaper to drop lines to the West coast > of the US than to drop inter-asia links. This is just another seriously flawed model. > If companies like Global Sprintlink, Cable and Wireless, etc, > are going into non-US peering locations, then it is already > changing. Yes it is already changing. But as far as I can see, Global SprintLink represents the old US-centric model: GSL is the international arm of SprintLink and essentially sells bandwidth into the States. C&W is setting itself up as a global backbone provider. > However compared to the amount of Internet bandwidth > in the US, compared to elsewhere, I seriously doubt that there > is any kind of siginifcant subisidy to US users. I know it's hard to think about these things, but a T1 across the Atlantic costs us 235 times as much as a T1 to MAE West. Comparing Mbps is a joke. > (Just because it costs non-US based ISPs more to play the > fully connected game, doesn't mean there is a signficant cost > difference, just a market imbalance. Yes 235:1 is a bit of a market imbalance; some might say that it is a significant cost difference. ) -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 http://www.uk.vbc.net VBCnet West +1 408 971 2682 fax +1 408 971 2684 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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