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

[John Lindsay]

> On 27 Aug 2014, at 11:16 am, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
> 
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>> On Aug 27, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Ben Grubb <bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au> wrote:
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>> "Frankly, if Netflix wanted to really put the cat amongst the pigeons, it'd
>> come in with a great service and pay Telstra for "transit" (only actually
>> using them as a last-resort provider for routes it can't get elsewhere, to
>> minimise traffic costs) -- for a time."
>> 
>> They could so that.... but why would they when they could just open in a market where it's cheaper before here?
>> As CloudFlare points out, it's 20X Europe for bandwidth here and Telstra is apparently to blame for a lot of this.
> 
> We’ve covered this subject on this mailing list before. Recently. Goldfish memory.

And Telstra might try a non neutral, QoS play which the retail market would reward with a large shift to Telstra's competitors because incumbency ain't what it was. 

jsl
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