> On Oct 20, 2021, at 11:53 , Jared Brown <nanog-...@mail.com> wrote:
>
> Not to be outdone, British Telecom joins the cephalopod games:
>
> “Every Tbps (terabit-per-second) of data consumed over and above current
> levels costs about £50m,” says Marc Allera, the chief executive of BT’s
> consumer division. “In the last year alone we’ve seen 4Tbps of extra usage
> and the cost to keep up with that growth is huge.”
>
> “When the rules were created 25 years ago I don’t think anyone would have
> envisioned four or five companies would be driving 80% of the traffic on the
> world’s internet. They aren’t making a contribution to the services they are
> being carried on; that doesn’t feel right.”
>
> “A lot of the principles of net neutrality are incredibly valuable, we are
> not trying to stop or marginalise players but there has to be more effective
> coordination of demand than there is today”
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/10/squid-games-success-reopens-debate-over-who-should-pay-for-rising-internet-traffic-netflix
>
>
> For reference British Telecom has about 10 million broadband subscribers, so
> apparently those £200m capacity upgrades are stinging.
Back of the napkin, unless I got something very wrong, £200M across 10M
subscribers is £20 per subscriber as a one-time cost.
Spread across a (very rapid) deprecation schedule of 5 years, that amounts to
33 pence per subscriber per month.
Hey, BT, charge your customers an extra 50 pence per month and enjoy pocketing
that £81.6M surplus.
> All in all, this raises an interesting question. Is British Telecom running
> their networks so hot, that just keeping the lights on requires capacity
> upgrades or are they just looking for freebies?
Whether or not they are running that hot, the math above makes me think that
they are being whiney wankers.
Owen