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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 article <[email protected]>, Andy Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 8 Oct 2007, at 13:06, Roland Perry wrote: > >> Surely the incumbent doesn't impose a cost on the bandwidth along >> the local loop - the bottleneck (and cost per gigabyte) is the >> backhaul from their locally operated DSLAM to the ISP's own network. > >Yes, and it's 1,758,693 ($3.5m) PA for a 622Mbit BT Central, (so in >bandwidth terms, equates to $471/Mbit per month - if the central is >maxxed out). Wow. The pricing of the local incumbent in .NL is public - you can find everything on www.kpn-wholesale.com. Here is a direct link to the pdf with wholesale-prices: http://www.kpn-wholesale.com/content/doc/WBA%20annex%204%20CM%20v1.3.pdf I guess it's about 50-100 times cheaper, but OTOH, we only put like ~3000 customers on an STM-4, so we need way more of them. Mike.
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