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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
> In the Australian ISP's case (which is what started this) it's rather > worse. > > The local telco monopoly bills between $30 and $50 per month for access > to the copper tail. > > So there's essentially no such thing as a $19.99/month connection here > (except for short-lived "flash-in-the-pan" loss-leaders, and we all know > how they turn out) > > So to run the numbers: A customer who averages .25Mbit/sec on a tail acquired > from the incumbent requires -- > > Port/line rental from the telco ~ $50 > IP transit ~ $ 6 (your number) > Transpacific backhaul ~ $50 (I'm not making this up) These look like great places for some improvement. > Like I said a few messages ago, as much as your marketplace derides > caps and quotas, I'm pretty sure that most of you would prefer to do > business with my constraints than with yours. That's nice from *your* point of view, as an ISP, but from the end-user's point of view, it discourages the development and deployment of the next killer app, which is the point that I've been making. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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