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

Wed Aug 27 00:03:53 EST 2014

+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>
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?

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 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.

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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.

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 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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