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

[Ben Grubb]

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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