cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

Sun Apr 17 08:23:53 UTC 2005

> Let's say for the sake of argument that by 2010 we want to give every 
> household 5 megabit/s on average. How could this be done with technology 
> today seen on the radar? Remember that the households should want to pay 
> for the bandwidth as well, meaning they might be willing to pay $30 per 
> month for the bandwidth part (this is kind of high, but let's go with it). 

fwiw, 100mb to the home costs about that in japan

randy