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

Wed Aug 27 00:15:29 EST 2014

Australia is making huge strides towards better interconnection. A few years ago there was almost no Internet Exchange capacity in use but rather capacity was bought via transit. Nowadays you have Megaport and WAIA present in most states and there is a lot of content exchanged via these platforms.

Fixing Telstra by regulation is a whole different story ...

On 8/27/14, 12:08 AM, "Ben Grubb" <bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au<mailto:bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au>> wrote:
Sure but there's hardly been any discussion of late on this and the impact it has on the Australian market.

Net neutrality has barely rated a mention in Australia since 2008.  Combine it with NBN Co's CVC charge and it's not looking like Australia will become attractive for content players at all. Do we want that?

Regards,
Ben Grubb

On 27 August 2014 00:06, Wolfgang Nagele (AusRegistry) <wolfgang.nagele at ausregistry.com.au<mailto:wolfgang.nagele at ausregistry.com.au>> wrote:
Just look into Netflix + <insert large eyeball network name here> in the US. It’s not an Australian thing. It’s been the “war” between eyeball networks and content for a while.

On 8/27/14, 12:04 AM, "Ben Grubb" <bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au<mailto:bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au>> wrote:

Sure. Doesn't make it right though.

When talking about the Australian market though are there others besides Telstra using similar tactics?

Regards,
Ben Grubb

On 27 August 2014 00:02, Wolfgang Nagele (AusRegistry) <wolfgang.nagele at ausregistry.com.au<mailto:wolfgang.nagele at ausregistry.com.au>> wrote:
Simply not true that Telstra is the only one doing this. Deutsche Telekom has been known to use the same practice for now decades. Swisscom, same thing.

All of the Gorillas are doing this. Sadly.

On 8/26/14, 11:35 PM, "Ben Grubb" <bgrubb at fairfaxmedia.com.au<mailto: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<mailto: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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