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

[Skeeve Stevens]

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.


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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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