[AusNOG] CloudFlare: The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World

[Ben Grubb]

I'm not sure the powers that be understand this given their record on
metadata.

Regards,
Ben Grubb


On 27 August 2014 00:03, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral <
kristoffer.sheather at cloudcentral.com.au> wrote:

> +1 - its a tax on the whole Australian economy.  I'm not sure whether the
> powers that be care or not (probably not considering its been going on so
> long :)
>
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> *From*: "Ben Grubb" <bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au>
> *Sent*: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:02 AM
> *To*: "Skeeve Stevens" <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>
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> *Cc*: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
> *Subject*: Re: [AusNOG] CloudFlare: The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around
> the World
>
>  Is it time that interconnection be regulated? Clearly CloudFlare shows
> Australia up as horrible place for start-ups and content players when you
> have to pay what is effectively a "Telstra tax" to service 50% of the
> market (Telstra's customers) with a satisfactory experience that then
> drives up the cost of your product for your customers.
>
> Time for ACCC intervention?
>
>  Regards,
> Ben Grubb
>
> On 26 August 2014 23:45, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering what the differentiator will be between Bigpond and Foxtel
>> Internet which they are about to launch.
>>
>> Telstra not peering is very *yawn* and some 20 years old news.
>>
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
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>>
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>>
>>  On 26 August 2014 23:35, Ben Grubb <bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>  I'm planning on writing about this guys for the SMH. Matt at
>>> CloudFlare gave me the heads up earlier.
>>>
>>> If anyone feels like ranting to me about this, drop me a line :)
>>>
>>> It's really interesting IMO, especially considering it's in Telstra's
>>> best interest with its 50% stake in Foxtel to keep content players like
>>> Netflix away. Only way to do that is by charging them ridiculous transit
>>> fees.
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>> Ben Grubb
>>>
>>> On 26 August 2014 23:30, James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-around-the-world
>>>> via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226654
>>>>
>>>> "Australia is the most expensive region in which we operate, but for an
>>>> interesting reason. We peer with virtually every ISP in the region
>>>> except
>>>> one: Telstra. Telstra, which controls approximately 50% of the market,
>>>> and
>>>> was traditionally the monopoly telecom provider, charges some of the
>>>> highest transit pricing in the world — 20x the benchmark ($200/Mbps)."
>>>>
>>>> Not quite news, but it's still interesting to see the relative numbers.
>>>>
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