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Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India

  • From: Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
  • Date: Thu Dec 23 09:05:17 2004

I think everyone has pretty much known that the
international cable companies are basically cartels --
leaking bandwidth into the market at a rate sufficient
enough to keep prices artificially high enough to (at
the very least) sustain fiscal margins.

This has been going on for years.

- fergie


-- Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
> .. and meanwhile, the best part of 32 STM-1s worth of fiber is lying dark ...

If they lit /all/ of the fibre, don't you think it'll all be used very very quickly?

What will they do then? Lay more fibre next year? :)

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
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