On 13 July 2010 00:49, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: > a) Australia is much larger than the UK, and with much lower > population density. So the sunk cost per person is much higher here > Sorry, but that has sfa to do with metering. It might account for higher installation costs or monthly costs associated with the rental of the link to the CPE but not most of the data pricing.
In my not-very-well-informed opinion, most of the data pricing is caused by cartel-like behaviour from a few providers. Some recent disruptive elements in the market have smashed the wholesale cost (to 30% of what it was a couple of years ago) but the cost ain a DC (which is where ISPs buy their data to on a mbps/month basis, not mbps/kilometre basis to your house) is still 10x the cost of actual delivery. Our buy price for the unmetered 100mbps of IP transit for TechEd this year is 2/3 the cost of last year and will get cheaper per mbps again if we end up buying more capacity on that link. > b) Australian telcos have to pay overseas peers for data, because > more data originates overseas than in Aus. Until that pricing scheme > changes, there will never be true “unlimited” plans in Aus > Yes, you can: http://www.tpg.com.au/products_services/adsl2plus_pricing.php My gut is telling me to type that we will never see super-cheap unlimited stuff here in Oz, but I would not have believed that TPG unlimited ADSL2+ plan would have ever existed if you asked me a few months ago. I wouldn't get too hung up on international transit. All providers pay someone for IP transit at some point - the question is just how much. TPG were smart enough to buy Pipe, get their own International cable, light up some extra wavelengths on it and have every other sucker underwriting their international transit capacity to Guam. I'd hate to be competing against them when NBN rolls out. David. -- *David Connors* | da...@codify.com | www.codify.com Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
