[AusNOG] Netflix, AWS and Softlayer vs. Australia

[Mark Newton]

On 5 Dec 2014, at 04:04, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Which is lovely in theory but Comcast, for instance, isn't proposing
> that nice economically sound approach.  They include a quota and then
> a high cost per GB beyond that which looks based on using it as a
> penalty for high use, not cost based.  Say, around $1 per gigabyte.

So they're using the base+excess model which Australia used to use (and still does use for business access)

> That values a Mbps at say ~$300/Mbps/month which doesn't seem
> rational.

It does in the "pay for a larger quota or have a bad time" sense.

   - mark