John, You are correct, Gig is starting to go for $1-$2 per mb. Not only from Hurricaine, although Hurricaine is clearly a disruptive force leader today. Hurricaine is doing a big marketing push with Equinix, which I think is really helping them expand both in market share and quality of peering. Having to buy Gig quantity to get a discount is no longer a disadvantage when it is 10x less per mb than 100mb quantity :-)
The problem is that nobody (End user customers) needs a Gig. So providers dont want to sell you a gig in remote buildings where there are customers that you can resell to, or they under cut themselves. They also cant do it in buildings where they have to buy/lease the fiber from someone else, without multiple customers to share it. It has to be from a place that they already cost justified the Dark fiber purchase. Cost is still all about transport, getting into the colo. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Thomas" <jtho...@quarnet.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo We buy ours through a reseller, and they have quoted us $1000/month for Gig at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. John Mike Hammett wrote: > I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if GigE connections were under $1 > now. > I know a couple companies were at $1. > > Bandwidth pricing is the inverse of real estate pricing. Downtown > Chicago, > a sq.ft. of land could buy you hundreds of acres in Montana. A single meg > in Montana could buy you hundreds of megs (or a couple gigs) in Chicago. > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Andy Trimmell" <atrimm...@precisionds.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:20 PM > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo > > >> 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to AT&T. We're paying 10x >> that from AT&T right now. >> >> $0.90? come on give me a break. If that's possible then we should sue >> AT&T >> for highway robbery. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Mike Hammett >> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:26 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo >> >> Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90/meg? $9/meg isn't much to write home about. >> ;-) >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Justin Wilson" <j...@mtin.net> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:48 AM >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>; "RickG" >> <rgunder...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo >> >> >>> Yup. If you are at an on-net building you can get it even cheaper. >>> One >>> client is buying for $9 a meg in bulk in Chicago. Their biggest hurdle >>> are >>> peering agreements with the big boys. The AT&t¹s of the world are sort >>> of >>> tolerating them at the moment until they can figure out what to do. >>> They >>> tried de-peering with them a few years ago and there was an outcry. >>> Lots >>> of >>> web-sites are hosted on cogent bandwidth. >>> >>> Justin >>> >>> -- >>> Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> >>> CCNA CCNT Mikrotik Advanced >>> http://www.mtin.net - Homepage >>> http://www.mtin.net/blog - Technical Blog >>> >>> XISP solutions Hosting Consulting Tower Climbing >>> >>> >>> From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> >>> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:33:16 -0500 >>> To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo >>> >>> I hear $1500 for a gig! >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mike Hammett >>> <wispawirel...@ics-il.net>wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I wish I was a bit closer to a POP to take advantage of it, but my >>>> Cogent >>>> rep informed me that through the end of the month, they have a promo >>>> going >>>> $400/100 megabit 1 year contract. Only available at Cogent and carrier >>>> neutral data centers. These facilities are listed on their web site >>>> under >>>> the network heading. A complete building list (and not eligible for >>>> this >>>> promo) is available in the service locator under Dedicated Internet >>>> access. >>>> >>>> Not all of their host buildings allow roof access, but I believe a >>>> significant number of them do. I encourage you to build your network >>>> out >>>> to >>>> these facilities. >>>> >>>> Sure, someone's going to hop on here and complain about how horrible >>>> Cogent >>>> is, but every carrier has their good and bad spots. I'm sure I could >>>> find >>>> someone to honestly say the same things about AT&T, VZB, Level3, >>>> InterNAP, >>>> XO, MZima, etc., etc. It doesn't matter the carrier, I strongly >>>> encourage >>>> you to have more than one. >>>> >>>> Feel free to blast the list with questions about building your network >>>> to >>>> Cogent, routing policies to best combine Cogent and your existing >>>> provider, >>>> etc. These things would apply to any carrier, not just Cogent. >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> Mike Hammett >>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>>> http://www.ics-il.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>> WISPA Wants You! 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