North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
On 17 Aug 2004, at 14:20, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: Things are not the same everywhere. Politics, infrastructure, labor, taxes, and a myriad of other factors make it not very useful to say "US is $30, AU is $300" and expect to draw any meaningful conclusion by the comparison - except, of course, that AU transit is more expensive than US transit.I don't know, the Economist has been making allegedly useful comments about the relative prices of the Big Mac in different economies for a long time. http://www.economist.com/markets/Bigmac/Index.cfm I suppose a more direct analogy to the Big Mac Index would be to take some usefully-accurate measure of transit costs in each country, and use that to weight a comparison between other related commodities (cell phone calls? televisions? computers?) Of course, I am not an economist, and people who are tend to scare me. Joe
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