and if UTL is making money out of this, then why did it take anyone 3 years to implement?
-- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Tuesday 18 January 2011 11:28:40 Reinier Battenberg wrote: > AFAIK, they dont. The deal with the Google cache is that you may host it, > and you then are obliged to give other peers in your country free access. > That is why the MTN cache is slightly different (because of the sms stuff > they also had going) and MTN never gave anyone access to their cache. > Its probably also the reason why it took 3 years to have the first ISP use > the UIXP to get access to a cache. > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Reinier Battenberg > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > UIXP traffic is free (AFAIK), and Orange is selling it to their clients > > > at 250USD/Mbs at least to their clients. > > > > I see what you mean now. However, it's not as cut and dried as that. > > They pay someone (or multiple someones) for transit. that's not free. > > The fact that they are getting ~30 Mbps from the GGC means that this > > traffic will be delivered faster to their customers than from transit > > links. It doesn't mean that they are paying for 30Mb/s less transit > > however. It's just 30Mbps less transit than they are using. Make > > sense? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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