Creating exchanges [Was: Re: MAE-East - 30%]

Sat Oct 12 17:51:07 UTC 1996

   From: Dave Curado <dcurado at neteng.nis.newscorp.com>

   However, I had huge problems running an ISP in HK.  The telco pricing
   has always been such that it is scads less expensive to connect back
   to the US than to another country, even another country just a few
   miles away.  I keep watching the pricing and goings-on to see if/when
   there will be a reasonable pricing decrease on bandwidth to Asia, but
   haven't seen anything yet.  

Oh well, mark HK off the list...

   I'd love to see someone get an oc3/12/48 pipe from HK to the west
   coast, and resell to the 60+ HK ISPs at reasonable prices.  While
   in HK a week ago, I was trying to set up a 128K line for a small
   organization there.  The cost is in the US$4k range -- I was afraid
   to tell those guys what I pay for a 128K bri line here in the US.

I'll forward this to some people I know.  Probably nothing will happen
but who knows?

   For the time being, it seems that the most affordable solution would
   be for each country to build it's own exchange, and have everything
   link back via the US.  (although its silly to have traffic from HK
   to Bangkok routing via San Jose...)

Well, Hawaii is closer...  :-/

                                        ---Rob