Current street prices for US Internet Transit

Wed Aug 18 02:16:52 UTC 2004

> Are you saying that if something costs more in Singapore or Australia 
> than the US, then the companies selling that product here in the US for 
> less must be selling below cost?
> 
> Things are not the same everywhere.  Politics, infrastructure, labor, 
> taxes, and a myriad of other factors make it not very useful to say "US 
> is $30, AU is $300" and expect to draw any meaningful conclusion by the 
> comparison - except, of course, that AU transit is more expensive than 
> US transit.

You can peg a 100Mb/s FTTH line (which costs about $65 
USD/month on a 1 year contract) from Chunghwa Telecom in 
Taipei 24/7, as long as the majority of your traffic stays 
on the island of Taiwan...  If you start doing tons of P2P 
to Japan, Korea or the Chinese mainland their AUP department 
will crack down rather quickly.  Geographical considerations 
like the cost of subsea cables certainly affect this a lot.

I know of a Fijiian ISP paying $40,000/month for a DS3 on 
Southern Cross.

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http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/20040630/20040630b4.html

"We will be offering services of 10 megabits, 20 megabits 
and 100 megabits by mid-July. The cost of the service will 
be lower than both Japan's 100-megabit service and Korea's 
13-megabit service," Chunghwa Telecom Chairman Hochen Tan 
said in a statement.

According to information the company provided, network 
access for a 100 megabit FTTH service is available for the 
equivalent of NT$2,370 (US$70) per month in Japan. In South 
Korea, a 13 megabit service currently costs the equivalent 
of NT$1,796 per month.

"Our network-access fees will be around NT$1,796 for the 
10-megabit service, NT$2,000 for the 20-megabit service, and 
just over NT$2,300 for 100-megabit service," Hochen told CNA 
on Tuesday.

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-Eric