On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, DJ! wrote:
> > your figures come to c. A$170 per gig for international traffic.
> > why? is it because of telstra, or what?
>
> Could it be that we have a population __less than 2%__ that of the USA?
> Similarly, could it be that Australia's GDP stands at a measly
> USD440billion, compared to the USA's USD10trillion? After all, we're
> talking about supporting (read: paying for) a massive infrastructure
> investment of a size only relatively smaller than in the USA.
That logic explains higher installation and monthly charges, it does _not_
explain higher data charges - especially when you consider that new
technology has made the same data path {I.E. pair of fiber} approximately
80 times more efficient at carrying data than when it was installed with
minimal to low infrastructure upgrade costs.
DaZZa
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