<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 19, 2018, at 00:44 , Christopher Morrow <<a href="mailto:morrowc.lists@gmail.com" class="">morrowc.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:28 PM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
I’d argue that the difference between reasonable (≤$500 one-time and ≤$50 MRC) and $300 MRC is within range of argument, but I cannot see any way in which an argument can be made that $5840 MRC is not a distortion in that same circumstance.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">captive audiences (or those which view themselves as captive) are so much fun... :(</div><div class="">I imagine that 'away from Telaviv' in the 20ms arena is .... actually pretty hard to find, right?<br class="">If you wanted to offer 'local' content locally (and offer it quickly/fastly (ha!)) it's probably pretty hard in that part of the world, right? Whether it actually 'costs' that much to pull a x-connect and maintain that x-connect is probably not as important as 'gosh it's really hard to be 'close' to <isreali city>' right? which is what they are capitalizing on here.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hank, how far away is the next closest large network metro ? Riyad? Rome? Sofia?... I mean, it's all 'far' from 'isreal' (or really any part of the world) to the next decent network POP :(</div><div class=""> </div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">At those prices, it doesn’t take a lot of XCs to justify the cost of building an additional datacenter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>