Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions

Tue Nov 30 07:42:00 UTC 2010

I spent have the GDP of Kyrgyzstan on their roaming charges when I
thought my Google Voice was using the WiFi vs. the mobile network.

Jeff

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Considering there are mobile roaming partners that charge USD10-15 per
>>> megabyte, unfortunately that proposition is really hard to do in todays
>>> global market.
>>
>> but really, the 'cost' here is  the same as a local wireless user for
>> air-time traffic, then 1$/mbps to ship the bits off their network
>> across the internet, right?
>
> Unfortunately the "cost" and the "price" has a very low correlation in this
> market. The same carriers who charge USD10 per megabyte for roaming might
> charge 0.1USD per megabyte to some of their own end users.
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
>
>

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