On 11 Aug 10, at 2:53 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > I think the question is more like why am I being quoted $100 A megabit > in India for transit in India? Not why am I being charged for for the > transport cost across the pacific.
Obviously I can't speak for the providers in question, but I'd guess that the cost for transit in AP is strongly related to the cost of long-haul transport. Once upon a time, the majority of Internet traffic in AP countries *did* originate in the US. Does anybody have data that this is changing? Cheers, -Benson